As you may have guessed from this blog, are passionate about audio recording of live events, concerts, preferably acoustic music.
I have a Zoom H4 handheld recorder , capable of a maximum resolution of 24 bits at 96 kHz. Of course, this resolution is abundant in both the quality of the internal microphones (unless of overstating the outside, but in this case, the recorder is not much "PDA"), is the destination for classical recording, or the incision CD.
Despite the best results are obtained by recording 24-bit 44.1 kHz, yielding the best compromise between sound quality and space occupied by files. The choice of sampling frequency, the same as the CD, is selected so as to avoid converting from 96 or 48 kHz frequency, which inevitably lose quality. The 24 bits also allow for a tolerance that allows users to minimize the loss of quality interventions in subsequent processing.
recordings performed live by myself have always been recorded on CD with outcomes often very satisfactory. The fact remains that the final conversion to 16 bits of the tracks is always ready to listen to a minor loss of quality, despite the use of dithering and noise shaping. Days ago, though, I got an idea.
time ago I bought a Trexstor the media center to watch movies on TV I have on PC. This object, just as appearance, price and wi-fi connectivity included, but very raw as software, has proved a disappointment for the lack of video playback h264 decoder (well hidden on the package), so it was little used for months.
The media center is equipped with an optical Toslink, presumably enabled the 24-bit and 192 kHz, which should represent the highest quality sampling in DVD-video of the deceased and DVD-audio. I thought to connect the media center to my Musical Fidelity A3/24 DAC , with revenue Toslink (Optical) and SPDIF (coaxial) that accepts signals up to 24 bits and 108 kHz. The DAC is a type of oversampling up to 24 bits and 192 kHz, and I suspect that's equipped with reclocking input signal.
Well, the results were excellent! Finally, I could listen to my recordings with the native resolution. But then, I thought, let's see if you can do something to listen to my favorite music in higher resolution than the CD. It was not long ago that I poked around online to follow the audio market, in fact I was surprised by what I found online.
In the next episode (within a week) we'll see how the story continued.
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