What to do with 88.2 tracks if the dac doesn't support it.

[metalnwood]

Hi all, I am now going to look at the audio-dg nfb2 DAC but I have a question.

 

It does not support 88.2. So, what do you do? If I buy music in that format because 96 is not available should I use some software to upsample it and keep it stored at 96?

 

Obviously I would only get 96 if it was available.

 

I am not sure about upsampling it on the fly as I will probably get either amarra or puremusic for their dithered audio. In that case they use itunes to do the upsampling which I have read is not very good.

 

What software could I use to do it? Preferably mac but I have a windows machine as well.

 

Is that how you guys would do it?

 

Thanks!

 

 

[firedog]

Yeah, just upsample it to 96 or downsample it to 24/44.1 (keep the original for archive/future purposes.

 

You may find you can't tell the difference or that the difference is very small

 

[metalnwood]

Thanks. I just found sound manager which is pretty cheap and looks like it should have good SRC. It also supports lots of automator action in osx so I can create a quick workflow so it should be dead easy to convert.

 

[ted_b]

n/t