Anyone listening to 24/196?


If so, what DAC are you using? The Benchmark can intake those signals, but it downsamples them to 110. The BelCanto can't take them. The Bryston BDA-1 is one of the few non-megabuck DACs that can take 192 as an input.

Anything else under 3k?

From Bryston materials: "The CS-4398 operates in one of three oversampling modes based on the input sample rate. Single-speed mode supports input sample rates up to 50 kHz and uses a 128x oversampling ratio. Double-speed mode supports input sample rates up to 100 kHz and uses an oversampling ratio of 64x. Quad-speed mode supports input sample rates up to 200 kHz and uses an oversampling ratio of 32x."
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Rdyland - check out this link: www.merging.com/download/dxd_Resolution_v3.5.pdf
Yeah:

DSD64 = 1BIT / 2.8224 MHz = 2.8224 Mbit/s (per channel)
DSD128 = 1BIT / 5.6448 MHz = 5.6448 Mbit/s (per channel)
DXD (PCM) = 24 BIT / 352.8kHz = 8.4672 Mbit/s (per channel)
Just an interesting note a half year later, looks like 24/96 PCM is gathering steam as the next standard, although in the computer-digital world it will probably be a mix (i.e., 24/88.2 is currently also very common), but overall 24/96 FLAC set to level 6 compression has a slight lead over everything else from what I can tell.
I downloaded some 24/96 albums from HDTracks. You can never speak in absolutes on these things because there are so many variables but they clearly sound better to me. There's a certain something there (an anolog sounding somthing) that is an improvement over regular redbook. I wold have everything in 24/96 if I could. Nicely fluid, detailed, organic, whole from top to bottom.