Windows vs Linux: round 2 (Off Topic)
Hello Peter and all others,
I enjoyed the visit at Bert's place, it was very interesting not only to listen to the equipment but alos to meet the people involved.
It does leave me with a lot of questions. From a pure technical point of view I really have no idea how all the differences are caused. There are still no measurements that pinpoint the sound quality aspects that we are discussing, at least I have never seen anything of it. That is why I call this work trial-and-error.
You bring up the matter of aliasing when upsampling to 48 kHz. If this is the case than the upsampler does its work very poor. I did not check it by measurements. This could be done relatively straightforward but I do not have the equipment for it.
Unfortunately, we could not compare one and the same CD at 44 and 48 kHZ with the same player at Bert's. At home I compared a lot of them and all upsampled CD's sound better and I know that aliasing sounds very nasty if it occurs. Three months ago I was strongly hesitating to try this because, again from technical reasons, I caNot understand why it should be a substantial difference.
I want to finish with saying that I am very happy with the equipment that I have at the moment. It is much better that I could dream of when I started this hobby more than thirty years ago. Further improvement is still possible so I remain curious and I hope to spend a lot of time listening to music.
Kind regards,
Eddie
Complete thread:
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - Eddie, 2007-08-12, 22:38
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - Bert, 2007-08-13, 01:19
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - MikeH, 2007-08-13, 02:31
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - PeterSt., 2007-08-13, 03:13
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 1/2 - GC, 2007-08-13, 06:38
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - PeterSt., 2007-08-13, 03:13
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - PeterSt., 2007-08-13, 12:10
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - PeterSt., 2007-08-13, 13:10
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - Eddie, 2007-08-17, 22:54
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - PeterSt., 2007-08-13, 13:10
- Windows vs Linux: round 2 - Flecko, 2007-08-25, 21:42