barrows Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I picked this up the minute it was offered, despite the mp3 provenance. This is ambient music, for the most part. But mine is 24 bit and 48 kHz. I assume this is the native rate which Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are working at. MP3 is of course a lossy representation of the original source files. SO/ROON/HQPe: DSD 512-Sonore opticalModuleDeluxe-Signature Rendu optical with Well Tempered Clock--DIY DSC-2 DAC with SC Pure Clock--DIY Purifi Amplifier-Focus Audio FS888 speakers-JL E 112 sub-Nordost Tyr USB, DIY EventHorizon AC cables, Iconoclast XLR & speaker cables, Synergistic Purple Fuses, Spacetime system clarifiers. ISOAcoustics Oreas footers. SONORE computer audio | opticalRendu | ultraRendu | microRendu | Signature Rendu SE | Accessories | Software | Link to comment
barrows Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I just double checked, and I only see that it is 48 kHz, and not 24 bit, my bad... SO/ROON/HQPe: DSD 512-Sonore opticalModuleDeluxe-Signature Rendu optical with Well Tempered Clock--DIY DSC-2 DAC with SC Pure Clock--DIY Purifi Amplifier-Focus Audio FS888 speakers-JL E 112 sub-Nordost Tyr USB, DIY EventHorizon AC cables, Iconoclast XLR & speaker cables, Synergistic Purple Fuses, Spacetime system clarifiers. ISOAcoustics Oreas footers. SONORE computer audio | opticalRendu | ultraRendu | microRendu | Signature Rendu SE | Accessories | Software | Link to comment
barrows Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 OK, tripled checked, and Roon reports the file as 24 bit and 48 kHz mp3, so I guess it really is 24 bit. SO/ROON/HQPe: DSD 512-Sonore opticalModuleDeluxe-Signature Rendu optical with Well Tempered Clock--DIY DSC-2 DAC with SC Pure Clock--DIY Purifi Amplifier-Focus Audio FS888 speakers-JL E 112 sub-Nordost Tyr USB, DIY EventHorizon AC cables, Iconoclast XLR & speaker cables, Synergistic Purple Fuses, Spacetime system clarifiers. ISOAcoustics Oreas footers. SONORE computer audio | opticalRendu | ultraRendu | microRendu | Signature Rendu SE | Accessories | Software | Link to comment
barrows Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 3 hours ago, AudioDoctor said: I checked in Roon here just now and it also says it is a 24/48 file... Now I don't know what's going on. Audirvana says it is a 16/48 file. Well, either way it is still a lossy mp3, cannot get around that. I trust Roon more than I do Audirvana, which has always been a bit buggy for me. Maybe Audirvana just "assumes" that any mp3 compressed file would be from a 16 bit source? Anyway, I suspect mp3 encoding means that the bit depth of the original file would be irrelevant, considering the lossy compression applied I figure than any actual information below the 16th bit would be eliminated. SO/ROON/HQPe: DSD 512-Sonore opticalModuleDeluxe-Signature Rendu optical with Well Tempered Clock--DIY DSC-2 DAC with SC Pure Clock--DIY Purifi Amplifier-Focus Audio FS888 speakers-JL E 112 sub-Nordost Tyr USB, DIY EventHorizon AC cables, Iconoclast XLR & speaker cables, Synergistic Purple Fuses, Spacetime system clarifiers. ISOAcoustics Oreas footers. SONORE computer audio | opticalRendu | ultraRendu | microRendu | Signature Rendu SE | Accessories | Software | Link to comment
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