by soundboyrich on 21 Jun 2020, 02:05
Moreover, Ronald
Between double quotes, I posted the following on Mixxx forum asking the same issue.
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I am requesting that Mixxx provide 24bit 192kHz support. Virtual DJ supports 24bit 192kHz, there maybe other DJ SW supporting the format too.
SMH when I read this from the user manual. Downloads maybe silly but capability to playback is not.
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QUOTE "For a more thorough and technical explanation of why 16 bits at 44.1 kHz is all that is needed for playback, read
24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed."
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15 YRS AGO I RECORDED MY VINYL COLLECTION, I WANT THE BETTER TRANSFER OF MY VINYL NOW THAT I HAVE BETTER EQUIPMENT.
In mid year 2000, I transfer vinyl at 16bit 48kHz (I was in a hurry). I can do a much better job today to preserve the vinyl. I plan to do my entire collection again (not everything) at 24bit, 192kHz. This require cleaning of vinyl and saving the file to WAV or FLAC format. (Hearing is the only sensory that operates as fast as 10usec. All other bodily sensors are at least 100X slower. 24bit, 192kHz sampling meets the 10us criteria. Example, your out in the woods area alone, you hear a twig snap, you can sense distance and location in 10us timeframe. Same procedure when critically listening to music, you must have good source, obviously, and good (high fidelity) audio hardware. I'm always improving my sound system, over the years, my ear have less tolerance for garbage in garbage out audio.)
YOUR GOING TO FORCE ME TO DOWN SAMPLE JUST TO USE MIXXX. NOW I HAVE TO KEEP 2 COPIES, ORIGINAL AND DOWNSAMPLE. CLUTTER.
If I sampled at 192kHz and DJ software does not support that, now I must down convert 96kHz just because DJ software does not support the samplerate. Meanwhile audiofiles get to playback files that DJ can't playback. Check out your typical motherboard soundcard, in this year 2020, most will support 24bit , 192kHz playback. Why can't DJ software do this as yet.
I WANT TO LISTEN TO HIGHER QUALITY AUDIO, i CAN DEFINITELY HEAR A DIFFERENCE OF 16BIT 44KHZ VS 24BIT 192KHZ.
I made recording, analyzed the waveform and listen comparison using a switch (SW or HW) to compare what I'm hearing. 24bit, 192kHz sound better. I don't care about file size, 250MB size WAV or FLAC file, equates to 1TeraByte/250M = 40,000 lossless music files. Tera=1Xe12, 1,000,000,000,000,000
MY CPU & SOUNDCARD HARDWARE CAN EASILY HANDLE THE PROCESSING OF HIGH QUALITY AUDIO FILES.
Check out the Audio chip on your desktop PC or laptop motherboard, it's likely to handle 24bit, 192kHz playback multichannel. 96kHz samplerate is quite ubiquitous in DJ hardware now. My speaker sound processor is at 96kHz, My Pioneer EFX-1000 at 96kHz. I use an analog mixer cus it sounds way better but companies are making all digital mixer at 96kHz internal digital sampling. 96kHz equipment will get replaced at some point, manufacture will make it so cheap that 192kHz or even 384kHz will become attainable by the semi-pro.
I WANT TO PRESERVE AS MUCH OF MY OLD MUSIC THAT TODAY CANNOT BE REPLICATED IN PLAYBACK BY TODAYS DJ-PRODUCER/MUSICIAN OR IN ELECTRONICS MUSIC PRODUCTION.
MY ENTIRE COLLECTION OF MUSIC IS NOT 24BIT 192KHZ, BUT I WANT THE CAPABILITY TO PLAYBACK THE DAME FILES IF I HAVE THEM.
Will I still have my collection of mp3 320kbps files? Of course, I get plenty from my record pool. Sometimes the pool will release a throwback aka oldie-but-goldie record and the transfer is not great.
With that said, I am going to begin to pull boxes at a time of my vinyl collection, clean using wet sponge (vinegar based cleaning), rinse with running water, dry with cotton cloth. Technics 1200, Nagaoka MP-150 cartridge, Schitt Mani phono preamp, Bozak 102DL mixer, using Tracktion and Audicity recording software proceed to transfer hand picked vinyl. This is alot of work but my passion. (Why should I have to down-sample just because DJ software doesn't support the format?) Besides that I can hear a difference using the higher quality audio compared to the transferred I did years ago.
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