Sound differences

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Thanks for your answer.

(05-02-2013 13:14)simoncn Wrote:  MinimServer doesn't resample. It just fills the low-order bits with zeros.

I agree with you that it seems very surprising that this should make a difference. I didn't believe it until I had heard it myself consistently on a lot of different source material. Some other forum members have also heard this difference.

Me as a technician and know how digital data works are very suprised that it makes a difference, because the filled gap (8 bits) of zero data '0' is nothing that could make a difference when decoding.

Quote:I don't have a technical explanation for this. My guess is that there is some difference within the Linn DS between how 16-bit inputs and 24-bit inputs are processed. I haven't been able to try it with any other renderer.

That could be an explanation, but still ... then there should be an difference in the Linn for example when converting wav to pcm.

Quote:Have you tried it yourself? Can you hear a difference?

No, but i'm using another software which can convert different formats straight to pcm on the server.
I do this to export the file straight to the dac without having my streamer decoding the file into pcm.
And there are no hearing differences here, that's why i'm curious how this is possible with Minimserver.