In Reply to: RE: DSD64 Download plays in WM11 with DSD Plugin posted by Michael Bishop on March 20, 2008 at 18:24:44:
More like one hour for me. However, with some experience in the workings of Internet protocols, I was aware of the tricks. The problem is the long round trip time from Norway. You can only download 64 KB every round trip time between computers using a single TCP stream. Get yourself a download manager, such as http://www.leechget.net/. The maximum download rate I could get with a normal browser download was 64 KBps until I ran Leechget and set it for 10 parallel downloads. Then I got about ten times that performance, limited only by my DSL speed.
That said, because of my DAC limitations I couldn't play the DXD file until I had downsampled it to 96 Khz using SoundForge, at which point it sounded the same as the 96 24 FLAC version that was also offered on the site.
I live in rural Vermont, but am fortunate to have a good ISP.
Tony Lauck
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