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Re: help with components for music server...

Nah, when they say "mastering," they are talking about the studio process of mucking around with the originally recorded tracks, downmixing to stereo from multitrack, etc. While digital studios may keep most of that in the 24/96 or 24/192 format, it all gets downsampled to 16/44.1 before getting dumped on a CD. So, there isn't a "master copy" of a CD in a higher resolution format... When you find those CDs that say, for example "Superbit 22 bit format", its saying that the CD was mastered using 22 bit "words." You aren't getting some odd 22/44.1 format on what you are buying--its still 16/44.1.

Dawnrazor-What kind of DACs deal with 32 bit formats? Are you sure you aren't talking about upsampling to 24bits? 24/96 and 24/192 are fairly common, but I haven't seen 32/96.


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