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  Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion
I've seen Steve N. Recommend converting Flac to Wav a few times in the threads. Last night I downloaded DBPoweramp to give it a try. It worked great. Just took 16/44 Flac & converted to 16/44 wav. Then I noticed it offered upconversion capability... It was late, I should have been in bed an hour before, but I sat there and converted another flac file, setting it to upconvert to 24/192... Let it do its thing, hit play, heard music and when I looked up at my DAC, it said 24/192. It worked!. It was late, I had the volume on very very low, everyone was asleep. Sure, I'll listen and report, but 'm wondering if anyone else has tried this and found any sound quality difference between Flac Or Wav @ 16/44 vs upconverting the recording? I and I'm sure others would love to hear your experience, thanks in advance, Tim
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04-17-12
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04-17-12   .. better be a clear difference to justify the much larger f ...   Mapman

04-17-12   Are you able to articulate why this should sound better, at ...   Mezmo

04-17-12   Hi mezmo, i guess i confused you as much as i was confused. ...   Timlub

04-17-12   Flac to .wav conversion is one thing, but sample-rate conver ...   Audioengr

04-18-12   Thanks, tim. was hopeful that perhaps you'd stumbled on som ...   Mezmo

04-18-12: Hfisher3380
Haven't really compared FLAC or ALAC to AIFF or WAV but it makes sense to me that uncompressed would be theoretically capable of higher fidelity - no need for the CPU or software to convert on the fly. Storage space is extremely cheap, especially compared to overall hifi costs - so my attitude is why bother with compression at all.

Up conversion, however, makes no sense to me whatsoever. IMO, anything which alters the original signal is distortion.

Hfisher3380  (System | Threads | Answers | This Thread)


04-19-12   Mezmo wrote: "steve, have you found that permanently up ...   Audioengr

04-19-12   "with most dacs, this type of upsampling from 44.1 to 9 ...   Mapman

01-09-13   Unlike analog audio, which records a smooth and continuous w ...   Mrjazz1959

01-12-13   I have musica pristina virtuoso music server and here is my ...   Dob

01-13-13   Dob - it helps to understand why upsampling makes things sou ...   Audioengr

01-13-13   Hello steve, "dob - it helps to understand why upsampl ...   Dob

01-14-13   Steve, any ideas about transcoding on the fly from flac to ...   Sgr

01-14-13   Dob - higher sample-rate files can be better for high-freque ...   Audioengr

01-15-13   Thank you steve. i have only limited experience with upsampl ...   Dob

01-15-13   "steve, any ideas about transcoding on the fly from fl ...   Audioengr

01-16-13   Hi steve, thanks for your thoughts. i've been reading that t ...   Sgr

01-16-13   Sgr - i have found that the differences in flac alac and aif ...   Audioengr

01-16-13   Maybe this was covered, but anybody know a good, reliable pr ...   Mapman

01-16-13   Mapman, jriver or dbpoweramp can do the trick. i believe if ...   Sgr

01-17-13   Sgr, thanks for that info. which program is best from a us ...   Mapman

01-18-13   Each program works a little differently and they should be a ...   Sgr

01-19-13   I am running a trial version of switch converter software as ...   Mapman

01-20-13   if a wow system's like sgr's barely discerns between flac an ...   Mihaitaa

01-20-13   " if a wow system's like sgr's barely discerns between ...   Dob

01-20-13   It's true, wav is vastly superior to flac. vastly. flac so ...   Lupinthe3rd

01-21-13   Dob, i do hear a difference. wav does sound better than flac ...   Sgr

01-21-13   Hello steven, sorry if i have offended you. you do things r ...   Dob

01-22-13   Thanks dob no offense. i'll check out musica pristina it i ...   Sgr

01-22-13   Dob wrote: "he will never guess, that "1" is ...   Audioengr

01-22-13   When flac and wav sound different, its probably more due to ...   Mapman

01-22-13   Fwiw, i think it's odd that different software players (that ...   Doggiehowser

01-22-13   For example, 96k files require twice as many mixing resource ...   Raytheprinter

01-23-13   It boils down to the software must be able able to run corre ...   Mapman

01-23-13   Mapman - with many people using aysnc usb the real time natu ...   Dtc

01-23-13   Dtc, "all it really has to do is keep the buffer full ...   Mapman

01-23-13   Mapman - async usb puts the timing and request under the con ...   Dtc

01-23-13   Hi dob, all i wanted to say is that sgr's system is far supe ...   Mihaitaa

01-23-13   The first system i noticed the difference between aiff and a ...   Doggiehowser

01-31-13   Hi, i would like to illuminate my "subtle" referen ...   Sgr

02-01-13   Sgr - there have been quite a few anocdotal reports that say ...   Audioengr

03-11-13   I have not heard difference between wav and flac. if there ...   Mlapenta

04-13-13   The greatest and most consistent difference between flac and ...   Dob


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