On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 15:08 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Bearcat M. Sandor wrote:
>
> > Yesterday i asked for assistance figuring out how to get mpd + pulse
> > audio upsampling to 24/192. The results are *fantastic* Bass is deeper
> > and tighter, decay is longer and vocals are clearer. I don't know why.
> > It kinda makes sense and it doesn't. It might all be in my head.
>
> My guess is the latter.
>
> To see if you can tell the difference between the original source at a
> sample rate supported by the hardware and the upsampled source, I
> suggest you do proper double blind testing:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_experiment#Double-blind_trials
>
> document what you find and then get someone else to repeat your double
> blind test to see if your results can be repeated.
>
> The above is science, anything less is snake oil.
>
> I continue to be completely *embarassed* by some of the things I see
> people write about sample rate conversion in general and about Secret
> Rabbit Code in particular. Personally I won't beleive a word of it
> until someone publishes proper test results that have been independently
> verified.
>
> Erik
I respect that opinon. However, this does allow me to play my 24/192
files as they were intended. I since the upsampling is a must, how can i
get flash and gstreamer to upsample to 24/192 as well?
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