A new USB Audio card has just been introduced by First Impression Music. This is the first USB card to have 24/176.4 music files! Instead of using optical discs which have errors, this new card has a bit perfect copy of the original master file!
No price has been set yet as this is the first release, FIM DXD 066 Super Sound I. Plans are in process for folks who purchase these cards to have access to the higher rez DSD/DXD download.
A new USB Audio card has just been introduced by First Impression Music. This is the first USB card to have 24/176.4 music files! Instead of using optical discs which have errors, this new card has a bit perfect copy of the original master file!
No price has been set yet as this is the first release, FIM DXD 066 Super Sound I. Plans are in process for folks who purchase these cards to have access to the higher rez DSD/DXD download.
No copy protection. Just drag the files to your computer. I deleted my card and loaded the files back and it works. Takes about 1 minute (depending on your computer's buss speed).
Winston wants to package them in a nice acryllic case and such.
A new USB Audio card has just been introduced by First Impression Music. This is the first USB card to have 24/176.4 music files! Instead of using optical discs which have errors, this new card has a bit perfect copy of the original master file!
No price has been set yet as this is the first release, FIM DXD 066 Super Sound I. Plans are in process for folks who purchase these cards to have access to the higher rez DSD/DXD download.
No copy protection. Just drag the files to your computer. I deleted my card and loaded the files back and it works. Takes about 1 minute (depending on your computer's buss speed).
Winston wants to package them in a nice acryllic case and such.
. I would like to fully understand your statement. Are you implying that copies made on Optical discs are not be bit-perfect? Is that a general statement or does this just apply to the particular process of transferring recording on certain Optical disc ?
It is fully understood that optical discs have C1, C2 and CU errors. Now... C1 and C2 are usually correctable through redundancy and error correction, but not CU, which is an unrecoverable error.
I have received discs from a couple labels with hi-rez files that had these errors. If they had sent a hard drive, USB drive or something, these errors wouldn't be there, especially if they used checksum.
Bruce has some good points, and of course some drives are better than others in recovering from the various classes of errors. To learn more than any human should want to know about this, one can start with www.exactaudiocopy.de.
1. Ability of the player to read and understand high-resolution files. These files can be uncompressed wave, or various forms of lossless compression. Chances of either one of these being there in a standard car audio player is next to zero.
2. Ability to render such files at original resolution. This is also a very remote possibility although due to dobly digital tracks being 20-bits, and it being nearly impossible to fund just 44.1Khz, 16-bit DACs these days, the hardware capability will be there. But likely no software to actually drive it.
1. Ability of the player to read and understand high-resolution files. These files can be uncompressed wave, or various forms of lossless compression. Chances of either one of these being there in a standard car audio player is next to zero.
2. Ability to render such files at original resolution. This is also a very remote possibility although due to dobly digital tracks being 20-bits, and it being nearly impossible to fund just 44.1Khz, 16-bit DACs these days, the hardware capability will be there. But likely no software to actually drive it.