Your CDs are 16/44 and unless you subject them to sample rate conversion and bit interpolation they will stay 16/44 when ripped to your hard drive.
USB Audio Output Recommendations? Questions...
Now that I'm actually ripping all my CDs to hard drive in uncompressed format, I'm looking into USB audio outputs again... One thing I can't figure out is whether the 24/96 USB devices are USB 2.0 or USB 1.1--I think someone implied in a prior thread you really need USB 2.0 to do 96 kHz sampling. Any ideas?
Right now I'm using an Edirol UA-1D hanging off an WinXP Pro box and running coax to a Theta IIIA DAC. From there, it goes to an ARC LS16 to a pair of ARC D240IIs to a pair of ProAc RS2s. Doesn't sound bad at all, but I wonder what sonic benefits I get by going to 96 kHz sampling... The UA-1D, to my knowledge, only does 24 kHz.
Which brings me to my questions. How do you get playback of WAV files at 96 kHz sampling? I'm using MusicMatch for playback, but just for it's organizational features. Can 96 kHz playback be enabled in that? Should I switch to foobar or something else?
Anyone compared the Edirol UA-5 with the Waveterminal U24 or the M-Audio Audiophile? Anything else that should be on the list?
Thanks for any input.
Right now I'm using an Edirol UA-1D hanging off an WinXP Pro box and running coax to a Theta IIIA DAC. From there, it goes to an ARC LS16 to a pair of ARC D240IIs to a pair of ProAc RS2s. Doesn't sound bad at all, but I wonder what sonic benefits I get by going to 96 kHz sampling... The UA-1D, to my knowledge, only does 24 kHz.
Which brings me to my questions. How do you get playback of WAV files at 96 kHz sampling? I'm using MusicMatch for playback, but just for it's organizational features. Can 96 kHz playback be enabled in that? Should I switch to foobar or something else?
Anyone compared the Edirol UA-5 with the Waveterminal U24 or the M-Audio Audiophile? Anything else that should be on the list?
Thanks for any input.