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In Reply to: RE: There are solutions ............... posted by Cut-Throat on August 08, 2020 at 06:57:48
Well, I know that won't be happening in my house any time soon. It took us 27 years to decide to remodel the kitchen, and even then it wasn't a real redesign, just modernizing the old layout. We had talked about tearing down walls, moving the plumbing, putting in glass doors to the backyard, and never did any of it.
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Is that I did not have to tear down any Walls or deal with any Plumbing. I had a large blank wall that was easily accessible from the Back Storage Room. All I had to move was a thermostat and some Furnace Return Duct work.
I did the electrical work myself after I had the Blueprints drawn up by the Wood Shop. So, the project only took about 4 months from meeting with the designers at the Woodshop to Completion.
The Cabinet People were at my house only 3 Days, as they brought the Completed Cabinets in 5 pieces. This also included some Crown Molding that I added to encircle the entire Great Room in the Basement.
The electrical work that I did included adding a Dedicated Sub Panel with Dedicated Circuits for the Audio Gear and a dedicated circuit for the Audio Lighting. Also added about a dozen outlets in the Cabinetry, all with Hospital Grade outlets. It was a good winter project.
I've been just running through a lot of music on Qobuz and everything sounds great, much better than the Allo Boss ever did. I've mostly stuck to hi-res. It makes me wonder if I plugged my Oppo-93 into it if it would make CD sound better. I gave up on CD a few years ago and went back to vinyl before I discovered hi-res streaming. I can't remember the last time I put a CD on. Besides, my collection was truly boring. That might also free up an input to my preamp come to think of it as my Outlaw POS decodes the TV. Not sure if it comes out as Dolby Digital or some such or just PCM.
I believe you mentioned that you were running a USB out of your Rpi into the E30. Did you upgrade to a Rpi Model 4 ? --- If not, you should, as the USB out of a Rpi Model 3 will be subject to drops outs, as well as a lot of noise as the Ethernet and USB are on the same 'rail' together.
You can get an RPi Model 4 with 2GB for around $45, if you haven't already done so.
No, still on the 3B. I'm not having any dropouts though. I was playing 24/384 and DSD256 just now and everything came through just fine. I'm not using the wired ethernet either, just the wifi, and it is battery powered. I don't know if that would eliminate any internal noise generated. I think I get more background noise from the AC that is running in my upstairs bedroom than I can hear from the system.I was curious about the RPi4 though, but I already have more Pi's than I need.
One question I have though is that one of the tracks showed up as wave 32/384 but played at 24/384. I thought the E30 could handle 32 bits, but maybe not some other part of my chain? I'm using DLNA and maybe that is limited, or the RPi itself is limited? Something is. I'll have to direct connect it again to my iMac to see if I can get 32 bit to play. It isn't important though, I only have the one track and there isn't much out there except some demos.
And one other thing too, DSD256 sounds incredible. It just sounds "right".
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In truth, you need about 20 good bits to provide all the dynamic range found on recordings. 24 is simply the next convenient data size.
I cannot think of any studio that finds the need to record in 32 bits. Converting 24 bit content to 32 bits just pads the data stream.
That wasn't the point. Regardless of whether it is necessary or needed, I do have one recording done in 32 bit, and when I played it I only got 24 bits at the DAC. In any case though I figured it out. Audirvana's setting was to only go to 24 bits and I changed it to 32 and all is well and I get 32 bits at the DAC. Does it make a difference? I don't know but it sure sounded good that way.I have a few DSD256 tracks and these all sound superb, the most realistic presentation of anything I have. It really does make a difference. 32/384 could be the same in that tracks recorded that way will sound realistic. 16/44.1 does NOT sound realistic to me, it didn't in 1986 and it doesn't now either, even on a DAC that sounds better than anything I've had so far. It can sound good, but not realistic, not like DSD 256 does. Now of course all of these DSD tracks are audiophile types, carefully recorded by engineers that are looking for the best sound possible, and mostly from Norway. I'm sure that is part of it. It's the Norwegian sound, just like our speaker drivers are all from Denmark.
When I was in Norway a few years ago I was surprised at how much that sound pervades the country. Even the street musicians had that sound. A performance in a park by a small jazz orchestra had that sound. Even the tram in Bergen had that sound, Grieg of course! Every stop on the way to the airport has a different little ditty that plays, and Grieg's home stop of course played Grieg. It was a fantastic trip to a place I'd never thought of going to. I've got pictures of a bike ride I did that was the most incredible ride ever.
Edits: 08/10/20
I do have one recording done in 32 bit...
Alrighty then. Nothing succeeds like excess! ;)
While I agree that 44/16 was a standard fenced in by 1976 era media limitations, I find that 96/24 is where the differences start getting more difficult to hear. I have many 176/24 and 192/24 recordings, but I couldn't say they are necessarily *better* because of that. The 96/24 format offers plenty of bandwidth in which to use a more gradual aliasing filter.
I'm of two minds about DSD. Some claim that "upsampling" PCM to DSD sounds better. If that's true, then it is necessarily changing the original and imparting its own *nicer* sound.
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