Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
I wrote up a word document, too. In that word document, I explained it a bit more... Anyways, I put it up in a mega.nz link. I encrypted it so it doesn't get taken down as quickly. But yeah.
Link:
https://mega.nz/#F!3b5liAbJ
Key: ITJ6bzlnOXJSa2YtUkdCVVhrMF8tWUE= In order to decode the key, copy it and paste it in here: https://www.base64decode.org/ Once you get that key decoded, that's the key.Enjoy :)
Here's a link for vocals and classical music on different bit/sample rates. Keep in mind that the file sizes can get stupidly large- a perfect example is Mozart: Violent Concerto in D major, which is 9 minutes and 24 seconds long at a whopping 1.4GB in file size. http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html I suggest you play around here, there's a lot to hear :)
Edit: Forgot to mention that there are "better" file types than even FLAC. DSD is fairly popular ranging from DSD 65 @ 2.8224Mbit/s to DSD 256 @ 11.2896Mbit/s. Most FLAC files are 24BITS/second. For reference, there are 2959501 bits in 2.8224 Megabits & 11838004 bits in 11.2896 Megabits. The point is that you've really reached the point of diminishing value and it's not worth your bandwidth/storage/time to strictly use these files since the truth is that we're only human & can't tell enough of a difference between the two in blind-tests. Not only can you not hear that difference enough of the time to make it worth it, but finding music in that file format is next to impossible. Stick to FLAC/MP3 on your main rig and MP3 spotify if you're away from your computer. :) I know this is a lot of information and most of the details I've presented don't really matter, but I hope you get the point. DSD/DXD >= FLAC > MP3. DSD/DXD is used in multi-million dollar budget movies FLAC is almost just as good, smaller, and put on CDs MP3 is a super compressed version of FLAC used for portability and very small size.
There is also another popular file format called .wav but I don't have enough knowledge on that format & I don't want to lead you astray.
Thanks!