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Disadvantage of 96/24 FLac´s ?
mrfritzle:
Hello everybody out there,
could some of the rockbox team be so kind an tell if there is a disadvantage for the sound quality.
if I use Flac´s with 96/24 (I know that only 44.1/16 is possible with this dac)
I would like to buy a few studio masters and tried a few sample songs.
...but Iam not 100% satisfied with the result.
Will it be better to re-encode them to 44.1/16, then to play them native ?
Environment: Ipod 5.5 (120 GB CF) with Fiio E12 (Fiio L10) and AKG Q701 / Sennheiser HD 650
Best regards and many greetings from germany
MrFritzle
saratoga:
Yes you will get better results if you encode your files at the sampling rate you run the DAC at.
Julian67:
If your DAC can't support 96/24 then it makes no sense to buy it. It may or may not be that it makes sense if your DAC does support it but that is another debate for another place. When you play 96/24 on hardware that supports only 44.1/16 then at some point the bit depth is going to be reduced and the sample rate converted down. You can 99.9% guarantee that the record company performs this task much better than your iPod or portable DAC so, unfortunately, what you are getting for the extra pennies spent on "Hi Res" can only be worse than if you bought the ordinary CD or 44.1/16 files. If I had bought those files I would convert them on PC to 44.1/16 with a good quality audio tool like SoX and only then listen to them or copy them to my portable player. Keep the originals of course as perhaps one day you will have a home audio set up where you can assess them, but for the moment they are not exactly beneficial or useful.
mrfritzle:
Hi Julian, my Squeezebox Touch and my FiiO X3 supporting the 96/24 and so its nice for me to buy the best quality that is available.
...but i was not sure what the right process to bring the file to my Rockbox Ipod. Do you have good xperience with SoX ?
Greetinx MrFritzle
saratoga:
Sox is fine.
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