Soundcard Recommendation
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HKC wrote:
I actually do think that 192 KHz may happen but like somebody else
mentioned, you won't be able to hear it and you can just convert the files
after you have mixed. I don't think that it will happen anytime soon though
and at the moment MP3 (or the Apple equivalent) seem to be what the world is
going for due to all the internet action.
Back in the 60s everybody had reel to reels but they lost completely out to
cassettes in the 70s due to convenience and certainly not quality. So
history repeats itself and in the end most of us are in it for the music so
as long as it doesn't sound terrible who cares.....
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I can easily make a CD so loud that most players won't be able to play it
back without distorting, and it still doesn't sound overly compressed in the
controlroom but what's the point. When the world gets better playback
equipment I will consider buying whatever it takes to keep up with that
standard but at the moment I'm way ahead of them.
What a strange argument. In the past (cassettes replacing reels) but also at
the moment (mp3 for downloads) the low quality format has many practical
advantages.
But talking about CDs, putting the same music in higher quality on a DVD
doesn't cost a lot more (for some reason, DVDs often retail for less than CDs,
and they contain apart from the video part more audio as well. So production
cost can't be an issue).
My DVD (not DVD-A) player is quite capable of sending 96 kHz to a high-end
DAC.
But somebody seems to have decided that better than 48/16 quality can only
released in weird encrypted formats.
So I just limit myself to buying CDs until somebody comes up with a reasonable
format.
(Compressing music until it doesn't playback properly on most CD players
strikes me as a bad use of bits. The idea behind 24 bit/ch is supposed
to be that you don't have to get as close to 0dBfs as possible).
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That was it. Done. The faulty Monk was turned out into the desert where it
could believe what it liked, including the idea that it had been hard done
by. It was allowed to keep its horse, since horses were so cheap to make.
-- Douglas Adams in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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