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Audio 101, a primer -a very long post!
loraan:
Sorry--Kennesaw.
escaflo:
--- Quote ---I'm not an audiophile by a long shot, but I do like my music not to suck, and there's something thats been on my mind for a while...
So, speaking of the whole 96kHz thing, I recently purchased an Onkyo 5.1 receiver and a set of Wharfedale Valdus speakers. It's great for DVD's, but I decided to hook up my computer to one of the digital inputs, feeding it with my SoundBlaster Live! Value OEM. Now, this card, according to the specs, is 16bit/48Khz. So I play music (MP3 128 and APE) through it, via the digital output on the card, and it sounds alright, playing with the different DSP and ProLogicII settings on the reciever.
I am wondering, seeing as the receiver "features" 24bit/96kHz DAC's, whether it would make a huge difference to the sound quality by upgrading to something like a SoundBlaster Audigy (which has 24bit/96kHz) when playing MP3 and APE files.
I'm just hoping I havent just made a total fool of myself :)
Cheers for the help,
Scott.
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I am no Audiophile too but as far as I know, Audigy don't have a true 24bit/96khz output. All the internal processing is still done at 16bit/48khz and what Audigy does is upsample the source at the DAC.
So basically what you are hearing is still 16bit/48khz sound. The only difference between Audigy and Live is that Audigy have a better DAC for their front output then Live. Live rear ouput have a better DAC than their front (one of the reason why KX Drivers swap them) and the DAC is the same one being use by Audigy for both the front and the back. Of course there's also the slight difference on the EMU101k processor but it is only for some EAX support I believe.
Cmagic:
A good 10 years old thread and the debate on audio perception quality is still vivid!
Since the original post, my hearing has probably lost a few dBs in some freq channels and I'm afraid it will lose even more in the next few years.
But anyway as long as I can enjoy music (even on a crappy cassette desk), dance a bit and have a drink, life's good!
Have a nice week-end,
C.
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