ray-dude Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Tom, this is awesome! Getting access to the 32 bit masters is a huge value add. Appreciate all the extra work to put an extra version out there for us. ATT Fiber -> EdgeRouter X SFP -> Taiko Audio Extreme -> Vinnie Rossi L2i-SE w/ Level 2 DAC -> Voxativ 9.87 speakers w/ 4D drivers Link to comment
ray-dude Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 These days, I'm listening to a lot of 16fs 32 bit content (705/768kHz) as wav files. When files get bigger than 4GB, I'm splitting them into multiple parts. With players that support gapless playback (HQP, Roon, etc), this is no issue at all. The parts play as intended, even with the 4GB limitation With all this preprocessing, I appreciate being able to get content in as close to the mastering format as possible (less about information content, more about information quality after digital processing....basically the same reason the mastering system does processing in 32 bits) Rexp 1 ATT Fiber -> EdgeRouter X SFP -> Taiko Audio Extreme -> Vinnie Rossi L2i-SE w/ Level 2 DAC -> Voxativ 9.87 speakers w/ 4D drivers Link to comment
Popular Post ray-dude Posted January 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2022 I upgraded to the 16fs version last night, and it is a winner in my chain. Clear lift in presence and realness for me. Difficult to say whether it is 16fs vs 8fs, or whether it is the quality of the RME analog to digital converter vs the Merging ADC (I suspect more of the later, but I'm sure the former is contributing). Hearing things like this makes me happy that I've been (very slowly) accumulating 1st gen copies of some key master tapes, looking forward to things like Rob Watts' Ravina ADC. There is magic still to be found on those analog masters, and I can't wait to hear it. @JoeWhipwelcome to the pain us PGGB users have happily embraced ;) I'm buying 12TB drives for my music server these days happybob and PAP 2 ATT Fiber -> EdgeRouter X SFP -> Taiko Audio Extreme -> Vinnie Rossi L2i-SE w/ Level 2 DAC -> Voxativ 9.87 speakers w/ 4D drivers Link to comment
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