Maarten Bosmans wrote: > What would you expect from such an area on the wiki? It would have answered my questions without having to ask them here. I will create a page soon with a summary of what we have discussed. > Then you can set resample-method in daemon.conf to src-sinc-best-quality. That's what I figured. Thanks. > Indeed, Jack will not gain you anything over PA for this scenario. I guess I should clarify. He wants to use Jack to have bit perfect playback of even 44.1k streams. He hates upsampling that much. > Probably not beneficial, but I'm not sure, honestly. The only way to > know for sure is to listen and compare the difference. I mean, you > audiophiles can talk for hours about what's the best way to setup > things, but eventually it all comes down to what sounds best. OK. > Well do you even understand why 96 kHz is better than 48 kHz? For the > same reason 192 is better than 96, be it with diminishing returns. > Than reason has nothing to do with our ability to hear ultasonic > soundwaves. Yes, I know the definition of sample rate. > Sure, resampling does something with the audio sampling, but I'm not > quite sure what "averages samples" should mean. Yep. I don't know what it means either. I think he has a personal opinion that upsampling is evil. > Pulse can only have fixed sample rate set for a sink. (There are some > patches floating around to fix that, which sound like they would fix > your single-source use case perfectly, but they land post 1.0 at the > earliest) Given that, 96kHz is obviously a better choice for a fixed > sample rate, as you'd rather upsample your CD-quality stuff than > downsample the 96 kHz recordings. > Good to hear. Thanks for your comments. If anyone has any other comments I will add them to the wiki page I will create.
