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cracking sound produced when 24bit 192000 format selected

post #1 of 6
10/20/11 at 12:46am
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hi i am having issues with my setup when i select 24bit 192000hz format is selected in windows 7 .

current setup is evga p55 motherboard with juli@ soundcard > rca interconnects > to avr > speakers.

 

i tried flac files, vob files, all have that cracking sound. as i reduce the output format quality it gets lesser, but the cracking sound is still there. only until i select CD quality then it stopped.  

 

what might be wrong? sound card faulty?  cause the soundcard is supposedly able to be able to handle 24bit 192000hz output.

 

if its the card that is faulty, what's the most value for money solution for me? i listen to alot of music (wide range of music i listen - slow oldies to death metal), quite alot of movies, rare almost no games.

 

solution:

music - ?

movies - ?

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post #2 of 6
10/20/11 at 1:07am

Nah I believe it is the Loudness War problem. If you don't know what i'm talking about, look it up.

 

I could rip any CD at 24bit with no problems, but as soon as I ripped a CD at anything over 44100hz I had the cracking problem too. There were some CDs I could rip fine at 24bit 88200hz, but they were old classic albums from the 70's and 80's which do not suffer from loudness. Unless your DAC supports 24bit playback, just stick with 16bit 44100hz. It works for me biggrin.gif

 

If i'm wrong someone please correct me as I am new to the whole ripping/frequencies thing.

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post #3 of 6
10/20/11 at 1:21am

 

You're not supposed to rip CD's at higher rates than 44.1kHz since CD's never go above 44.1kHz!!!

 

 

Rip CD's into FLAC 16bit/44.1kHz and then while you're playing your music upsample to 192kHz with the SoX plugin in Foobar, upsampling is all you can ever do to CD quality, and the difference in sound will be subtle.

 

 

Yoshiki I'm not sure what the Juli@ soundcard is.... but are you upsampling or playing native 24/192 files?

 

 

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post #4 of 6
10/23/11 at 5:36am
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Originally Posted by krod3003 View Post

Nah I believe it is the Loudness War problem. If you don't know what i'm talking about, look it up.

 

I could rip any CD at 24bit with no problems, but as soon as I ripped a CD at anything over 44100hz I had the cracking problem too. There were some CDs I could rip fine at 24bit 88200hz, but they were old classic albums from the 70's and 80's which do not suffer from loudness. Unless your DAC supports 24bit playback, just stick with 16bit 44100hz. It works for me biggrin.gif

 

If i'm wrong someone please correct me as I am new to the whole ripping/frequencies thing.


ok noted, i shall try the files i have on my friend's setup and see if there's that cracking sound. 

 

 

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Originally Posted by kiteki View Post

 

You're not supposed to rip CD's at higher rates than 44.1kHz since CD's never go above 44.1kHz!!!

 

 

Rip CD's into FLAC 16bit/44.1kHz and then while you're playing your music upsample to 192kHz with the SoX plugin in Foobar, upsampling is all you can ever do to CD quality, and the difference in sound will be subtle.

 

 

Yoshiki I'm not sure what the Juli@ soundcard is.... but are you upsampling or playing native 24/192 files?

 

 


its supposed to be native 24/192, no upsampling or oversampling involved here. 

 

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post #5 of 6
10/23/11 at 8:09am

 

It could be your CPU as well, tell us about your computer, look at task manager->performance while it's playing.

 

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post #6 of 6
10/23/11 at 9:44am

If you increase the sample rate, you increase the amount of data send to the sound card.

It is possible that your system is high on latency so above a certain threshold you get this crackling sound.

Try a tool like the DPC Latency Checker and check if this is the case.

 

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