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| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Steve - I do not believe a 24-bit file and a 16-bit file would compare exactly. The extra 8 bits per sample have to be stored somewhere. So I am not sure what you mean by this.Can someone do a bit compare on the Apple lossless files and see how di... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? Interesting observations. Sidssp - Did you try ripping the tracks that sounded different on the burned CDs and comparing them to each other and to the original ripped tracks? It would be interesting to see if the bits are different. If so, then th... | |
| WAV or Apple Lossless Encoder? If those of you who think that Apple lossless and wav files sound different I would suggest the following - rip the wav file with one ripper and the Apple lossless with iTunes. Then convert the Apple lossless to wav and compare the files bit for b... | |
| SonusFaber GrandPiano Center Speakers Here is an short review of the older center. It references a previous version also. Not a lot of details but it does confirm the vintage - depending on whether it is this one or the previous one. But we are looking 2000 or before. The Home series ... | |
| SonusFaber GrandPiano Center Speakers I agre with Ryder. The Solo Home center is very musical and does well for voices. Just not very punchy. The series before the Home series was bi-wireable so I assume that the center on e-bay (which it says is bi-wireable) is part of that series. I... | |
| SonusFaber GrandPiano Center Speakers If I understand your description correctly, the single mid-bass one is the center from the Home series and would have been the one that orginally matched your Grand Piano Home mains. However, I never thought it was not a great center for movies, e... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Steve - I agree in principle. The comparison here is between the real time up sampling from 44.1 to 48 done by XP versus the up sampling done by my DAC. I would prefer to not use the XP upsampling because I do not think it adds anything to the cha... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Mmarvin19 - I would rather have my DAC (Musical Fidelity) do the upscaling rather than some unknown software buried in the PC. So I am looking for a simple USB to optical or coax converter that will bypass the XP upscaling. The 44.1 to 48 upscalin... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? I just installed J River Media Center 13 last night and am still getting 48 MHz output on XP. I installed ASIO4ALL and upconversion still happens. I still need to do some experimenting to be sure I have everything set up correctly. Do you get 16/4... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Correction - not mapping through the device does not disable my devices, it just does not seem to stop the upsampling. The "do not use audio functions" option is the one that disables the devices. Sorry - I got the 2 options mixed up. | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Steve - Let me re-phrase - "XP generally upscales 44.1 files to 48 unless special software is installed to bypasses the XP upscaling". You are correct that is not only a driver issue. Unfortunately the simple solution of unmapping the device often... | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? Mmarvin19 - The JRiver and ASIO configuration is one I am intertested in but have not tried yet. Can you tell if you get 44.1 MHz out of both the Belkin and the Behringer? And do both pass higher frequency without re-sampling? I check this by hook... | |
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| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? In addition, XP generally upscales 44.1 files to 48 unless special drives are installed. Does the 24/96 link help with that problem? | |
| Why USB to SPDIF and not optical? I am a little concerned about the statement that it is compatible with native Windows drivers. Do you know how the Link product interacts with XP's audio subsystem? The literature says it accepts 24/96 but I think parts of the XP subsystem probabl... |