In Reply to: Apples and oranges... posted by NickR on March 11, 2001 at 23:42:56:
Ah, therein lies the question. What is the difference between reading the data and what the dac does ? What, in a standard player limits it to lower resolutions while other newer players can "read" higher resolutions ? These questions, because all I'm hearing is that it's only the disc and the dac which determine resolution and sampling rate. There must be another element here in the transport/reading mechanism or circuitry that enable it to read 24/96 or whatever. If I put a 24/96 disk into my 18 bit player and send the data to a 24/96 capable off-board dac, why the hell am I not getting the resolution that is on the disk ? And why do modern dvd player with 24/96 dacs downsample to 48kHz to the digital output ? Apparently, there are only a couple of players that send a true 24/96 datastream to the digital output ? Why, why, why ?Just want to understand this whole mess.
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- Re: Apples and oranges... - renaissance 08:51:59 03/12/01 (13)
- Re: Apples and oranges... - NickR 09:20:21 03/12/01 (12)
- Re: Apples and oranges... - renaissance 10:40:44 03/12/01 (11)
- My final post on this thread. - NickR 10:45:16 03/12/01 (10)
- Re: My final post on this thread. - renaissance 12:18:39 03/12/01 (9)
- 16/44.1 is that and nothing else!!! - garth 17:53:09 03/12/01 (0)
- For the same reasons that...... - Chris Garrett 14:29:41 03/12/01 (7)
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