High res ripping.

[invadingdevon]

I have recently purchased a high res player which is capable of playing 24-bit / 192 kHz files . I will now be re-ripping my CD collection to either FLAC or WAV and I would like to know which of the 2 formats do people prefer. I have noticed the option to rip CD's to 24-bit / 192 kHz files when selecting WAV. Does this mean dBpoweramp will up-sample my CD's to true hi-res files or is it just wishful thinking on my part and why is the option not available when selecting FLAC. Your opinion and advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Spoon]

Re: High res ripping.

Just wishful thinking, dBpoweramp upconvert to 192KHz, but there is no extra information, you would be wasting space.

[invadingdevon]

Re: High res ripping.

Just wishful thinking, dBpoweramp upconvert to 192KHz, but there is no extra information, you would be wasting space.

Thanks for the reply. So I am presuming I would have to purchase high res files which in turn would have to have been recorded in high res in the first place? Is this the future?

[Spoon]

Re: High res ripping.

Yes, but read this also:

http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

http://video.xiph.org/vid1.shtml

http://video.xiph.org/vid2.shtml

This is from the people who designed the OGG audio codec.

[invadingdevon]

Re: High res ripping.

Yes, but read this also:

http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

http://video.xiph.org/vid1.shtml

http://video.xiph.org/vid2.shtml

This is from the people who designed the OGG audio codec.

I would highly recommend any interested party takes the time and reads the above linked document. FLAC seems to be the way forward for myself, however, I have purchased a lot of my music as lossy files which begs the question can dBpoweramp successfully upsample a lossy file (MP3 Lame) to FLAC?

[invadingdevon]

Re: High res ripping.

I would highly recommend any interested party takes the time and reads the above linked document. FLAC seems to be the way forward for myself, however, I have purchased a lot of my music as lossy files which begs the question can dBpoweramp successfully upsample a lossy file (MP3 Lame) to FLAC?

Here is the answer for anoyone interested courtesy of Real HD-Audio. "Data compression schemes like MP3 are called "lossy" because they throw away a substantial amount of musical data. Once it's gone, it's gone."