[LAU] 24-bit files and hisss.... GOT IT

[Bearcat M. Şandor]

On Monday 16 February 2009 09:05:08 Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 13:03 +0100, hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> > Glad it works for you.
> > But: Upsampling can't make it better(=closer to the original), you
> > can't magically get stuff that's not there (even if companies like
> > creative claim so).
>
> Very true. But ..
>
> > If it sound better now than before something was wrong before or you
> > like some resampling artifacts ;)
>
> .. It's possible that the audio interface has a fixed (96kHz?) clock and
> uses dubious methods of achieving non-even sampling rates like 44.1k. In
> that scenario, the software upsampling done by alsa might be better than
> the presumed bad method done at hw level.
>
> Any sane soundcard (= not integrated or creative) wouldn't exhibit this
> behaviour though. Proper interfaces have proper clocks.
>
>
>  Sampo
>
>
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ok, so i'm confused.  If you're saying that upsampling is generally a bad 
thing why does one pay extra for it in  a product like this: 
http://www.meridian.co.uk/product-model/g-series/g082-upsampling-compact-disc-
player.aspx ?
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