utkuozdemir
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Hello everyone, this is my first post.
I have an Ipod classic 6th generation 1st revision (120gb) for about one year. I'm planning to buy ultimate ears triplefi 10 earphones soon, so I'm getting some of my music with high quality, like vinyl rips (flac), then convert them to apple lossless. These rips often come with 24bit/96khz quality. Unfortunately ipod classic cannot play music with sample quality over 48khz, so when I make the convertion (using dbpoweramp and its downsample dsp effect), I downsample these music to 48khz. Finally I get 24bit/48khz apple lossless music, playable in my ipod.
But I heard somewhere it is possible that Ipod does an internal downsampling and play them as 16bit/44khz. Is it true, where can I find exact information about that?
It seems I got 3 options:
1- Downsample them to 48khz, keep bitrate as 24, and play on ipod. (which I already do)
2- Downsample to 44khz and change bit depth to fixed 16bit using dither or not (I don't know what dither means btw)
3- Try to find cd rips or rip my own cds with original 24bit / 44khz quality (not a preferred option because I really prefer the masterings of vinyls and their rips are generally 24/96)
What would you suggest? Do you know if there's an internal resampling in ipod's OS or not?
One more question: Dou you think I should use ipod's equalizer (rock mode) when listening to classic rock music?
If you have any other suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them. I'm new at this stuff.
And sorry for bad English.
I have an Ipod classic 6th generation 1st revision (120gb) for about one year. I'm planning to buy ultimate ears triplefi 10 earphones soon, so I'm getting some of my music with high quality, like vinyl rips (flac), then convert them to apple lossless. These rips often come with 24bit/96khz quality. Unfortunately ipod classic cannot play music with sample quality over 48khz, so when I make the convertion (using dbpoweramp and its downsample dsp effect), I downsample these music to 48khz. Finally I get 24bit/48khz apple lossless music, playable in my ipod.
But I heard somewhere it is possible that Ipod does an internal downsampling and play them as 16bit/44khz. Is it true, where can I find exact information about that?
It seems I got 3 options:
1- Downsample them to 48khz, keep bitrate as 24, and play on ipod. (which I already do)
2- Downsample to 44khz and change bit depth to fixed 16bit using dither or not (I don't know what dither means btw)
3- Try to find cd rips or rip my own cds with original 24bit / 44khz quality (not a preferred option because I really prefer the masterings of vinyls and their rips are generally 24/96)
What would you suggest? Do you know if there's an internal resampling in ipod's OS or not?
One more question: Dou you think I should use ipod's equalizer (rock mode) when listening to classic rock music?
If you have any other suggestions, I'd be glad to hear them. I'm new at this stuff.
And sorry for bad English.