Re: [SurroundSound] Re: SACD ripping offer (Australia)

OK, but why "rip to xyz" when you can simply convert it to xyz on the fly as needed, and still have all the benefits of keeping original source material that you described?

Cheers,
Andrej

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Sam Edwards <samedwards@mac.com> wrote:

SACD's are best ripped to an even multiple of the basic 44.1khz CD sampling frequency. And to be honest I don't believe that anybody could tell the difference between 88.2 and 96khz sampling. They're basically the same. 

I also don't hear a big difference between SACD's ripped to 88.2khz/24bit  flac and 192.4khz on the equipment that I have. I keep the ISO files around in case that the difference becomes more apparent on some future system. To be completely honest an SACD rip to 44.1/16 bit lossless also sounds pretty darn good to me. 

The real advantage of audiophile formats is that you hope that somebody at least tried to master in a way that wasn't compressed, or clipped or rolled off in the frequency extremes. The extra bits and samples are just to be sure you're not loosing something. 

In a few years hard drives, and portable storage media will be large enough that we'll take the extra bits just because we can. But for now I just don't have more than a GB for a record. 

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