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Resampling my music collection

Suppose I wanted to do a static resampling of my music collection in the form of lossless audio files. Would there be an advantage to resampling to 96 kHz rather than 48 kHz? The only quibble I have with 96 kHz is that it would make the files twice the size.

One of the reasons I want to do a static resample is that if I want to do any DSP during playback, I don't have to worry about the resampling ability of the DSP software that I use.
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Dnewhous

What about http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/soundforgefamily.asp
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This is also a neat tool: http://src.infinitewave.ca/
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Neither Soundforge nor Wavelab do de-emphasis without a plugin, and the only plugin I've found that does it, the Waves Q10 plugin, does it with 32 bit precision, which just doesn't cut it.
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That's a misnomer - 32 bit floating point is only 24 bit precision, and a digital filter needs twice the precision of the source to prevent round off errors.

Jtwrace, that site is fascination. ProTools is the obvious reference to compare all others.

Amazingly, SSRC, freeware, is by far the best resampler, beating ProTools significantly!
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Nevermind on SSRC. The "high precision" version was a plugin for foobar2000 that is no longer available.

Adobe Audition of all the commercial software comes closest to matching the performance of Pro Tools.
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