What sample size and rate to rip?


I use Nero 7 Ultra Edition to rip my cds and before the ripping starts you have the option to select different bit sample size and frequency sample rates. Do you think that I should only rip at the lossless 16/44.1 sample rate thats on the cd or would be better to rip at 32 bits and 48 kHz (48 kHz is the maximum sample rate)? I wonder if this upconversion while ripping would introduce some kind of errors, although Nero has a jitter correction option.

After the ripping I could downconvert to 24 bits and increase the sample rate to 96 kHz in order to be able to send the data through S/PDIF. Would be better to rip directly to 24 bits instead of 32?

Also, if I rip a cd at 16/44.1 would be better to use the Nero SoundWave editor to upconvert it to 24/96 or should this upconversion be left for the external DAC to do it?
elhazard

Showing 1 response by developer_dave

Some people seem to be very enthusistic about upsampling such as Secret Rabbit Code, running through foobar. If a similar program does this upsampling and changes the file itself from 16/44 to 24/96 to be fed into a suitable non upsampling dac, why would this be not as good? I realise the file sizes would get much larger but is that really an issue these days?

It could then be played on a wider number of media players that do not support real time upsampling on pc or mac.