On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:58:44 -0000
"Keith G" wrote:

Which output
should I select to be 'right' or 'best' for playing WAVs, MP3s and CDs
from the computer?

For CDs it'll be 44k1

For WAVs, the best setting would be whichever was the clocsest to being
a multiple of the samplerate - eg. for a 22050 WAV use 44k1 and for a
DAT recording made into a WAV use 48k.

For MP3... I dont know. Im not 100% clear on how the data is
re-constituted, but I have a sneaky suspicion that 48k may be better, if
the player works the way I think it does (and Im sure not all players do
anyway).

I expect 41k1 would be best all round if you cant hear the difference
anyway, and most of your WAVs come from CD... :-)

Next, the hard disk upgrade (200Gb) means I am better able to record
music and save it as WAVs which, I have to say, sound pretty
convincing played through the DAC. The question here is whether or not
this the 'best' thing to do - I can play them or make CDRs from them
and so on, but is there a'better' way to save the music for any
reason? High bitrate MP3s or summat?

Well, you can save MORE music as mp3s, but you wont do better than the
quality of the original WAVs in anycase.

I'd suggest variable bitrate mp3 at full quality setting, rather than
320kbit - it will sound identical and use less space. (that is, assuming
you choose to store the data as mp3)

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