11-Jan-2016, 09:41
Using the Mac to change the sample rate on the fly (ie in real time rather than calculating a new different res file and playing that afterwards) will be using the built in Core Audio. This may well not be transparent.
The only software I have heard which did a transparent job at changing sampling rate was being used by a BBC sound engineer and was, apparently, very expensive.
It doesn't make any sense to change the file from its native format whilst listening anyway if "high-fidelity" rather than random unknown colouration is the objective.
Changing a 16/44 file can not add any musical information but may add spurious audible effects.
Most DACs these days re-sample all signals as part of the way they work, I believe the Devialet does for the volume control and SAM anyway.
The only software I have heard which did a transparent job at changing sampling rate was being used by a BBC sound engineer and was, apparently, very expensive.
It doesn't make any sense to change the file from its native format whilst listening anyway if "high-fidelity" rather than random unknown colouration is the objective.
Changing a 16/44 file can not add any musical information but may add spurious audible effects.
Most DACs these days re-sample all signals as part of the way they work, I believe the Devialet does for the volume control and SAM anyway.
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