>>>> 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). Can you just mount the DVD and cp the tracks over? Probably not or you would have done that. > "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. Do you know of others? I read he is into the Blu-Ray format and I can't imagine him going too all out with DVD-Video when he has his sights on Blu-Ray. > 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). Can you rip and play back 20-bit HDCD audio? >> 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. All you really need is a DVD drive and: http://dvd-audio.sourceforge.net/ - Grant ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
