Demonstrating various bit rates?

Posted by: Goon525 on 14 March 2012

I've bought one or two 192/24 recordings, including Meet Me in London. What I'd like to do is demonstrate sound quality at various rates - 192/24, 96/24, 44/16 and some grot MP3. But ideally without having to pay for the same music multiple times.does anyone know of some free or cheap samples that would enable me to do this?

Paul

Posted on: 14 March 2012 by adca

Maybe http://www.naimlabel.com/musicstore-test-files.aspx. If you buy 96/24 at theclassicalshop.net, mp3 and flac (16/44.1) are included. Both cases do not extend to 192/24. Alternatively, buy 192/24 and convert to the other formats. adca

Posted on: 14 March 2012 by Goon525

Thanks. That Naim test looks just the ticket.

Paul

Posted on: 14 March 2012 by MangoMonkey

You can download a trial version of dbpoweramp and try it out.

Posted on: 15 March 2012 by 0rangutan

Soundkeeperrecordings have a useful format comparison page.

There are a couple of free demo tracks available in 16/44, 24/96 and 24/192.

Posted on: 15 March 2012 by Mrox
Originally Posted by Goon525:

 I'd like to do is demonstrate sound quality at various rates - 192/24, 96/24, 44/16 and some grot MP3.

Hi Goon525,

I would be interested to hear about your though on the topic once you tested. (if you could share some info on your set up as well)

 

On my side, all I can say is that any hi res file(24bits XXkhz)  played on my Toshiba laptop pluged (analog) on my 250$ Sony SRS Z-1000 desktop speakers don't make any difference at all.  Sad

But the same files on my UnitiQute with lo fi JBL 300$ speakers are making a huge diffrence already.

 

I'm waiting to get hifi speakers to continue my testing. (After bit rates and frequency, I will then fall in all the sensitive topics of Cables, WiFi vs wired, Flac vs Wav, etc, so I will see for myself what I can and can't hear).