24 Bit Vinyl Vs Flac

The difference between 16 bit audio and 24 bit audio isn t just a matter of eight bits.

24 bit vinyl vs flac. Reply 22 2008 06 03 18 04 17 but a digital recording can sound like anything you want including an exact and perfect reproduction of the sound of an analogue vinyl recording including all the noise distortion clicks pops etc. After recently downloading kind of blue 192khz 24 bit flac from hdtracks and comparing the file size it has become apparent that the flac copy of this album we used in our comparison was not lossless. Other lossless audio file formats include alac apple lossless and wma lossless windows media audio. With every bit of greater resolution the number of levels.

The latter option is going to be heavily dependent upon your setup. Thus we will be reruning this comparison and reporting back in a future editorial. I am wondering if it would be best to record in 32bit and bounce down to 24 when i export to wav or just record in 24 if there won t be any difference. I m trying to figure out which sounds better a 16 bit flac file straight from the record company or a 24 bit flac ripped from a vinyl.

The former is a good ios and itunes compatible alternative to flac although the files are slightly less compact than flacs. Yes a cd i. And even if you spared no expense i d still bet the former option will sound better assuming the label did a competent job creating the. Flac files can also provide a resolution of up to 32 bit 96khz so better than cd quality.

Digital superiority technically speaking cd is a generally superior medium. There are several reasons at least one of them valid. People who complain about the fact a digital recording is quantized don t understand signal processing. Vinyl vs digital and 24 bit vs 16 bit from vinyl.

No matter what i will need a 24 bit file in the end to convert to flac as it is the highest bit rate the format supports.