Johnnyde94
Head-Fier
Hi there I was just wondering what the "proper" audio settings for windows would be. lets take my bifrost 2 as an example. On the spec sheets it can go up to 24/192 for usb, Is that what i should set windows audio settings to? This is kinda a bad example given its a multibit dac and I could also potently see the argument of leaving it at 16 bit dept as that's what the native bit depth of the chip is (or i guess technically 17bits given an explanation i watched somewhere due to there being 4 chips, each with 16 bits on two channels some how give you an extra bit of resolution)
Two questions then i guess... Let's assume i have a delta sigma with max bit depth of 32/384 (my SoundBlaster G6 I have at work atm), should that be my bit depth and sampling settings or should it be based on the recordings I have. let's also assume all recordings are cd quality so 16/44.1.
Second question, with multibit dacs, do they sound best always at a bit depth no more then the native bit resolution of the hardware (so pretty much rounded up or down to 16 for 99.9999 cases) I know they can reach 24 bit with megacomboburrito filter and over sampling but should you? Now there's NOS mode on the bifrost 2 but i won't even get into that as most prefer the sound of the filter and over sampling anyway.
I have always been curious on this question and if there is really any difference at all. I guess looking at the physics of if I only have 16 bits of resolution to begin with, to my knowledge upsampling would give you 8 more bits to work with but your now ether creating new information by oversampling or you are just wasting the extra bits with them being zeros. Modern computers don’t care about that extra compute.
If I wanted to go extreme on this question, what about upsampling algos in foobar should one upsample to highest settings a device should reach? Or should you just let the dac deal with that.
Thanks!!!!
Two questions then i guess... Let's assume i have a delta sigma with max bit depth of 32/384 (my SoundBlaster G6 I have at work atm), should that be my bit depth and sampling settings or should it be based on the recordings I have. let's also assume all recordings are cd quality so 16/44.1.
Second question, with multibit dacs, do they sound best always at a bit depth no more then the native bit resolution of the hardware (so pretty much rounded up or down to 16 for 99.9999 cases) I know they can reach 24 bit with megacomboburrito filter and over sampling but should you? Now there's NOS mode on the bifrost 2 but i won't even get into that as most prefer the sound of the filter and over sampling anyway.
I have always been curious on this question and if there is really any difference at all. I guess looking at the physics of if I only have 16 bits of resolution to begin with, to my knowledge upsampling would give you 8 more bits to work with but your now ether creating new information by oversampling or you are just wasting the extra bits with them being zeros. Modern computers don’t care about that extra compute.
If I wanted to go extreme on this question, what about upsampling algos in foobar should one upsample to highest settings a device should reach? Or should you just let the dac deal with that.
Thanks!!!!
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