Do I need an Audigy to....

[pillage2001]

hear a MP3 encoded at 320 kbps and at 48Khz. I'm using a Live now. Would there be a difference if I get an Audigy?? I'm planning to get it real soon. Will be using it with my Z560.

Feedback please dude.

What's with all the 48khz hype that creative is putting out?? Does it make MP3 sound any better rather than 44.1Khz??

 

[pillage2001]

Nobody knows?

 

[Lord Evermore]

No, you don't NEED it to hear them just fine. A Live! is capable of reproducing an MP3 perfectly well. Audigy is just better. I can't give any more detailed description than that, since I don't follow audio very much (I can't hear worth a damn, I only want an audigy for the firewire port without using another PCI slot).

 

[pillage2001]

<< No, you don't NEED it to hear them just fine. A Live! is capable of reproducing an MP3 perfectly well. Audigy is just better. I can't give any more detailed description than that, since I don't follow audio very much (I can't hear worth a damn, I only want an audigy for the firewire port without using another PCI slot). >>



But it's encoded in 48khz, as far as I know, the Live does playbacks at 44.1khz??

I'm lost.

 

[HendrixFan]

All internal processing with the Live card is done at 48khz. That means for CD Audio and most MP3s which are at 44.1khz, it is upsampled for internal processing, then downsampled before it goes through the output. Wasteful conversion, but it makes for a less expensive card. Im not certain whether or not the Audigy does the same internal processing at 48khz only.

Why are the MP3s encoded at 48khz? If you are using a CD as the source, upsampling from 44.1khz wont add any quality.

 

[Soccerman]

no.

encoding at 48khz is a waste of time, unless your source of audio is also 48khz.

CDs are at 44.1 khz, yet sounds above 22khz are cut off due to distortion effects higher frequencies bring. if a CD was 48khz, they would limit the uppermost frequencies to something 2khz or so higher (maybe 24khz). in reality people dont' appear to hear the difference between songs with a cuttoff of 19.5 and above. whether that's due to CDs including a cutoff at 19.5khz, or just our hearing I don't know.

go to r3mix.net for more info on MP3 encoding etc..

oh, and buy a santa cruz

 

[pillage2001]

<< no.

encoding at 48khz is a waste of time, unless your source of audio is also 48khz.

CDs are at 44.1 khz, yet sounds above 22khz are cut off due to distortion effects higher frequencies bring. if a CD was 48khz, they would limit the uppermost frequencies to something 2khz or so higher (maybe 24khz). in reality people dont' appear to hear the difference between songs with a cuttoff of 19.5 and above. whether that's due to CDs including a cutoff at 19.5khz, or just our hearing I don't know.

go to r3mix.net for more info on MP3 encoding etc..

oh, and buy a santa cruz >>



I would have bought it but I need an Optical output.

 

[bacillus]

<< I would have bought it but I need an Optical output. >>


you'll need the audigy platinum version then!