Linn studio masters

[chalkandtalk]

I would very much like to play the flac studio masters available from Linn through a Squeezebox. See here

http://www.linnrecords.com/linn-down...testfiles.aspx

There are some testfiles which I have downloaded but the squeezebox does not recognise the files being present. Can the Squeezebox play these formats?

[Phil Leigh]

I would very much like to play the flac studio masters available from Linn through a Squeezebox. See here

http://www.linnrecords.com/linn-down...testfiles.aspx

There are some testfiles which I have downloaded but the squeezebox does not recognise the files being present. Can the Squeezebox play these formats?

Oh yes - but you need the FLAC 96 / 88.2 versions and SC 7.3.2 (minimum). They sound... Great!

[hshrader]

Oh yes - but you need the FLAC 96 / 88.2 versions and SC 7.3.2 (minimum). They sound... Great!

A couple of questions:

Why do you need FLAC 96/88.2? What is this?

How are the files being imported into I-tunes? I presume they don't remain FLAC files.

When you say they sound great, haven't they been downconverted to 24/48 in SC 7.3.2? They may still sound great, but they are being heard at their intended level of resolution.

[Phil Leigh]

A couple of questions:

Why do you need FLAC 96/88.2? What is this?

How are the files being imported into I-tunes? I presume they don't remain FLAC files.

When you say they sound great, haven't they been downconverted to 24/48 in SC 7.3.2? They may still sound great, but they are being heard at their intended level of resolution.

I don't use iTunes or any Apple formats.

7.3.2 supports downsampling of 96/24 or 88.2/24 FLAC (only) via SOX - high quality result. Prior to 7.3.2 this didn't work properly (files were converted to Mp3!).

Yes the files are downsampled - but they are great recordings in the first place. This is the best sound quality obtainable IMHO from a squeezebox device (except for the Transporter).