In Reply to: Usually the 48/16 is just resampled from the 44.1/16. posted by Michi on November 5, 2005 at 15:04:27:
Your supposition is sorta hard for me to follow.
I doubt that the master was 16/44.1, so why upsample to 48 ?Sample rate would affect bandwidth spectrum, not headroom, so compression ratio would likely be the same because of the common word-length. Unless there's some other factor that I'm not aware of.
Why knock off 6db of headroom for DVD-V ? The DVD-V DACs all do 24 bit.The compression on this album and Fletcher-Munson eq would seem to be some of the highest that I've ever heard. Again, unless there's some other factor that I don't know of. (Maybe an exciter ?)
I feel that this was a concious decision based on content and aural
palette.I'm learning something new about this digital audio thing everyday.
My ears are telling me that the 16/48 side is cleaner, especially on the top-end.
Could be a placebo.
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- Re: Usually the 48/16 is just resampled from the 44.1/16. - AudiophileBob 19:27:37 11/05/05 (4)
- Re: Usually the 48/16 is just resampled from the 44.1/16. - racerguy 05:11:57 11/06/05 (3)
- Re: Usually the 48/16 is just resampled from the 44.1/16. - AudiophileBob 07:11:11 11/06/05 (2)
- The master may not be, - Michi 13:49:40 11/06/05 (1)
- i remember your post - Christine Tham 15:26:54 11/06/05 (0)