[dstrimbu]

I would have liked it to have a sample rate of 50-80Khz. That 20Khz The 44.1KHz sample rate with its 20KHz output strikes me as too close to the human hearing limit for my engineer's mind to be 100% happy with it.

Dare I mention Dr. H. Nyquist? He said that one only needs a sampling rate of twice the bandwidth of the signal's waveform... so 44.1kHz is 10% overkill.

 

[theveterans]

Why

They will eventually become extinct

 

[Orange5o]

They will eventually become extinct

And?

 

[Moondog55]

I would have liked it to have a sample rate of 50-80Khz. That 20Khz strikes me as too close to the human hearing limit for my engineer's mind to be 100% happy with it.
Cymbals, e.g., would be able to take advantage of the extra hertz-age, even if only our dogs can hear it.

My mathematical brain says 50Khz/20bits would have been fantastic. I'm annoyed at the wastefulness of 96Khz/24b. I could have had another 5 songs on there!

Alternatively, have a word at the beginning of the CD to say what the sample rate and sample size are on the recording. Now that would have been perfect sound forever.

I don't understand the 20kHz statement. The story I was told was the original (Redbook) sample rate was 48/16. The physical size of the cd was already set in (manufacturing) stone. The chosen (1st) piece of music to be recreated on the new cd medium was Beethoven's 9th. It wouldn't fit on the cd at 48/16. Some reconstruction of the parameters occurred and a new, coexisting sample rate of 44.1/16 appeared, just enough to make Ludwig happy. Both rates are (in theory) beyond human hearing ability by a factor of 2, Batman notwithstanding.

 

[jonathan c]

The terroir of California Schiit is superior to that of Texas Schiit?

Is this going to ascend into something akin to the NC vs TX bbq jerky back-and-forth?

FTFY...[Reg. TM; © bcowen: 2021.]

 

[dstrimbu]

Any source -> OG Yggy -> MJ3 -> OG Aegir -> any decent loudspeaker == OMG

...just sayin'

 

[Orange5o]

I do not think anyone will care which facilities manufactured their Schiit, so long as they are Assy in the USA unless you know of a reason the parts or quality would be different.

 

[earnmyturns]

what blew our minds in the HI FI trade was a machine that made better copies than the original digital stream it recorded from !! Utter heresy but a demonstrable fact

Given the very basic clock and buffering mechanisms of early CD drives, why is that surprising? A CD writer that placed the bits more accurately on the disc might be able to create a disc with less jitter when read back.

 

[thaddeusflowe]

Gadget delayed, Stjarna delayed, Singularity delayed. Guess I'm all in on Valhalla 3 then for now!

Wait do we know what gadget and singularity are?

When is Valhalla 3 dropping?

 

[turtlerod]

Dare I mention Dr. H. Nyquist? He said that one only needs a sampling rate of twice the bandwidth of the signal's waveform... so 44.1kHz is 10% overkill.

That is only true if you have a theoretically perfect filter on the sampled wave form. I do not think you have one of these.

 

[earnmyturns]

But, since it's rare for DACs these days to have a full-on brickwall low pass filter, I guess Mark might have a point that there tend to be certain artifacts of these stairsteps left behind (again, not to say he's not dangerously in BS territory with this stuff). And the more brickwall-ish the filter, the more you may introduce other kinds of artifacts.

That's why DACs upsample first, to push switching artifacts to higher frequencies where they can be filtered out with gentler low-pass filters, right?

 

[Orange5o]

Wait do we know what gadget and singularity are?

When is Valhalla 3 dropping?

First two can be searched within this thread or Google, second via the YouTube video today on the Schiit channel.

Not intended to be dismissive, but am in New Mexico for work and just left a brewery so....yeah

 

[dstrimbu]

That is only true if you have a theoretically perfect filter on the sampled wave form. I do not think you have one of these.

Yeah, but close enough to hear amazingly great music, so... I'm cool with theory separating from reality. >g<

 

[theeclone]

That's why DACs upsample first, to push switching artifacts to higher frequencies where they can be filtered out with gentler low-pass filters, right?

Yep. I will say tho that I preferred NOS on the holo DACs when they were my daily drivers. But then I felt like they did the smoothing filter just right.

 

[thaddeusflowe]

First two can be searched within this thread or Google, second via the YouTube video today on the Schiit channel.

Not intended to be dismissive, but am in New Mexico for work and just left a brewery so....yeah

Sorry, didn't mean to bother you specifically, was just putting it out there. I'll try to watch the youtube tomorrow.