On 22-08-08 20:58, Grant wrote: >>> Recording wise 24 bit gives you a greater dynamic sampling range. But >>> for most people it's not needed for playback as your CDs and DVDs >>> are already in a 16 bit format. And the benefit on playback is >>> minimal. Aside from generally being a better soundcard, rather than >>> from the media that it will be playing. Are you looking for a card >>> that only does 24 bit? Most that I know of do 16 and 24 bit. And the >>> only 24 bit media I have is that that I created myself. >> I can recommend becoming a Neil Young fan. He has released several CDs now >> with a "bonus" DVD containing the entire album in 96/24 (PCM) :-) > > Are you sure about that? I know he released a bunch of DVD-A discs > with 24-bit stuff, but are you saying he released normal DVDs with > 24/96 files just sitting there? Google is no help. Can you name one > or two? I'm a huge fan. Definitely. CD/DVD version of his "Greatest Hits" (2004) has the entire album in 96/24 PCM on the DVD-Video (which on a video DVD player shows a nice picture of a spinning turntable while playing) Same thing for "Living with war, In the begining" (2006). Note, that's not the regular Living with war. Those are the two I have here. mplayer was giving me endless grief actually ripping the tracks from the DVD so I haven't yet done that in fact, but: ========================================================================== Opening audio decoder: [dvdpcm] Uncompressed DVD/VOB LPCM audio decoder AUDIO: 96000 Hz, 2 ch, s24be, 4608.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 576000->576000) Selected audio codec: [dvdpcm] afm: dvdpcm (Uncompressed DVD/VOB LPCM) ========================================================================== (which then plays to a soundcard that does 4800/16 at best, but hey). "Living with war" is not his finest work -- the "In the beginning" version improves on it but there's just so much polish you can put on a turd. I'd _very_ much advice the "Greatest Hits" CD/DVD one though. Truly and definitely excellent sound quality and ofcourse great music. There's a sticker on the front with: -------------------------- BECAUSE SOUND MATTERS -------------------------- CD/DVD COMBO-PAK -------------------------- COMBO-PAK features all original master mixes now in super-saturated DVD-Stereo for the ------------------------- HIGHEST QUALITY AUDIO available on DVD ------------------------- Also available on CD only ------------------------- Especially if you, like me, like very direct recordings, you're going to love the sound-quality even of the CD (as most of his releases, a HDCD). > BTW, the entire Doors catalog is available on DVD-A in 24/96. For DVD-A you need a DVD-A player it would seem. I definitely haven't one. Rene. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
