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Old July 15th 15, 06:59 AM
John R Leddy John R Leddy is offline
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Originally Posted by Jim Lesurf[_2_] View Post
Yes, quite likely in fact. But if the original was downsampled to 44.1k that downsampling would introduce 'flaws' to some extent, and so would upsampling again in the DAC. These 'flaws' may be inaudible (particular if you don't have the original to compare with). But may not.
We're not going to get around the DAC or player oversampling-upsampling-oversampling so I take it I shouldn't get too bogged down with all this. Let's face it, compared to my LPs and cassettes of the past I'm doing pretty well as far as sound quality goes.

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From the POV of preserving quality and minimising the addition of flaws/losses that may become audible the ideal is to avoid all conversions that can be avoided.
I'm happy to adopt this strategy.

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Given that it is now easy to record and playback 96k/24 this means it is now easy to simply avoid and forget such 'risks' as downsampling and upsampling along the way.
So we really do want the bitdepth and sampling rate as used in the studio. I was hoping to avoid 24-bit 192kHz files.