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In Reply to: RE: Let the grenade throwing begin... posted by Charles Hansen on February 05, 2009 at 12:33:14
"In the meantime, there isn't much software available at sample rates past 96/24."
This is a chicken and egg problem. With more equipment and more people using computer audio there will be more software. Very little extra work is required when mastering at one PCM rate to create versions for other sampling rates.
Don't wait too long to bring out 192 kHz capability or you will find that the world has moved on and the leading edge consumers are looking for 352.8 and 384 KHz. These data rates are well within the bounds of current computer technology and are presently in use at the best mastering facilities.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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I have 20% genuine hirez material and I am converting one low power pc to 176.4k upsampled CD playback using Audition 3.0.1. Files just sound that much better, although they don't sound as good as the genuine hirez stuff.
Don't buy resampled 'hire' matwerial being offered; do it yourself to your own satifaction.
I think that we are pretty much on the cutting edge here. If you look around, there are only a handful of companies that match what we are doing now.
Arguably the only mainstream one to match us is dCS, but at over 10x the price. (They have recently announced an "asynchronous" USB and-on module that only works with their equipment due to the word-clock cable required for best performance.)
And the one company to surpass what we are doing as far as high sample rates the Linn at $20,000. I am told that it sounds very good, but that it only works with its own software which apparently is problematic.
So for a component with this level of performance and technology for less than $2,500 (price not finalized yet), I think we are offering technology that nobody else is (except Wavelength, of course) at a price point that nobody else is matching. We will continue to stay on the leading edge of things as they develop.
dCS pro gear is not athat expensive and works better in some ways (more controllable sttings). I have been using the upsampling and dsd playback features for 4 years. This is hardly cutting edge. The other company is EMM.
One sad thing about dCS is that, following reorganisation, they seem to have stopped developing their pro range with new cutting edge features such as DXD.
You have said elsewhere that the AES3 interface is broken. Look at how dCS does these and you see almost perfect wave transmissions; something that most others do not do well. The other thing they do well is the lack of thermal effects, using closed boxes that stabilise at 70 C.
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