will it work?

[fault151]

Hi i have noticed that all my external dacs never go above 44.1khz in sample rate.Is this due to my music being lossless filescoming from my computer via the optical? Does the source have to come of a sacd player for it to use a higher rate?

How does it work?

 

[Zorander]

What about DVDs (and any other sources with sampling rates beyond 44.1KHz)?

 

[fault151]

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Originally Posted by Zorander /img/forum/go_quote.gif What about DVDs (and any other sources with sampling rates beyond 44.1KHz)?

I tried it of my dvd player and it did the same thing. Theres nothing wrong with the dacs, all 3 cannot be faulty. I think my problem is within the source.

 

[Oliver :)]

Did you change the output rate?

Go to applications -> utilities -> Audio-MIDI

There you can define your sampling rate. Be aware though that FLASH content is allergic to the 96kHz setting, so once Youtube becomes a silent affair you have to go back and change it down (Note: iDVD and Garageband will change your setting to 96 without notice). 48kHz runs fine.

 

[fault151]

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Originally Posted by Oliver /img/forum/go_quote.gif Did you change the output rate? Go to applications -> utilities -> Audio-MIDI

Well i use a mac, i have looked through the settings but i can't see anywheere that says settings for sampling rate. Im gutted cos i really want to hear the difference!

Any ideas?

 

[fault151]

Does anyone know how to set it up on a mac using itunes?

 

[Oliver :)]

My hint was for Mac. You have to go through the Audio-MIDI-Setup/Configuration app as described. It will have a chooser allowing you to edit the attributes for "Audio (integrated)". There should be two fields below, Audio-Input and Audio-Output. "Source" on Audio-Output should be "digital out". Below that are two choosers for Format/Hz and Wordlength/16 vs. 24Bit.

 

[fault151]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oliver /img/forum/go_quote.gif My hint was for Mac. You have to go through the Audio-MIDI-Setup/Configuration app as described. It will have a chooser allowing you to edit the attributes for "Audio (integrated)". There should be two fields below, Audio-Input and Audio-Output. "Source" on Audio-Output should be "digital out". Below that are two choosers for Format/Hz and Wordlength/16 vs. 24Bit.

ok cheers, i'll give it a try when i get in.

 

[fault151]

Ok i tried it, it worked, but, Is it really out putting at 96khz? The light on the Music Fidelity dac is set constantly to 96khz even though the songs are not that high quality. How does it work? Does the dac set it's self to 96khz but just play the song depending on what the original is like? Or does it try to up sample all the songs to 96khz?

 

[fault151]

well can anyone shed any light on this subject???