And great headphones as well.0fea0b1dc0 .is.a.a.software.to.create. I am eventually 'hopefully' going to save for something like this: Astell & Kern AK240 which handles High Res flacs etc 8kHz ~ 192kHz (8/16/24bits per Sample). I will eventually get a good turntable and listen to good vinal recordings as well. You can use the free players I mentioned above to convert to flac as well. My cd's will be just collecting dust at my house from now on and kept only for back ups as I have started converting all my cds to flac 16 bit as cds are only 16 bit stereo. Never will I listen to mp3 format on the run unless I have no choice. I also have a small (Creative) portable music player that can handle flacs as well but only 16 bit.

I think a half decent laptop with HDMI out can do the same as my pc. I use free software players like winamp and foobar2000 which handle flacs as well as most other files including 24bit. Nothing over the top in price range as all this equipment is about 4 years old now.

I have some decent (over the ear) headphones as well. I use my PC (Windows 7) with a 1gb Nvidia graphics card - HDMI cable - Pioneer suround sound unit - basic JBL satelite speakers with a sub and choose stereo or 5.1 according to the mix. I can't comment on anything ipod as I don't use them. Many say it's little or no difference to their ears but it is to me in a possitive way depending on the recording, the engineering etc. I love the High Res 24bit/48 - 24/96 experience. Tmtomhy, you have described and explained it well.

If you do so, you want LPCM - linear PCM - which will retain all the musical information in your FLAC files. Typically the audio on regular DVDs is encoded in 16/48 resolution, but it is possible to encode it at 24/96. There is also another option - you can burn a regular DVD (aka DVD-Video) disc, which will play in any DVD player. The issue is having a disc player that will play DVD-Audio discs - most regular DVD players won't do it. There is free software that can resample the high-res audio from 24/96 to 24/48.Īs for DVD-Audio, there is software that will create a DVD-Audio disc. If you convert them to ALAC, they still won't work on an iPod though, because iPods (and iPhones and iPads) don't support 24/96 high-res audio. You can convert them to ALAC (Apple Lossless) to make them compatible with iTunes without losing any musical information in the process.

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