Tired of less than stellar audio quality during shows

[kecked]

Multichannel derived is easy to accomplish. Plus the surround portion need not always be part of the music. I was really referring to better quality rather than channels so much. The sound quality of many of the tracks I've heard is just sub par. For multichannel I'd stay PCM. Multi DSD is too expensive.

[Bradfo69]

The sound quality of many of the tracks I've heard is just sub par.

I wonder how much of that has to do with where the source came from in the first place. I'm sure the original recording on a CD or something was fine but, depending on where it's being ripped from, it could be quite worse. I'm not ashamed to admit I get some of my music for shows from Youtube and you're at the mercy of what the uploader had as a source and the obvious loss that occurs with the compression and up/downloading. I often find that one persons rip sounds better or worse than another persons rip but, sometimes, it's the only version available.

[swamidog]

I wonder how much of that has to do with where the source came from in the first place. I'm sure the original recording on a CD or something was fine but, depending on where it's being ripped from, it could be quite worse. I'm not ashamed to admit I get some of my music for shows from Youtube and you're at the mercy of what the uploader had as a source and the obvious loss that occurs with the compression and up/downloading. I often find that one persons rip sounds better or worse than another persons rip but, sometimes, it's the only version available.

yeah... you should be able to use an uncompressed aiff/wave or some other lossless format and play it via a high quality dac (like an echo layla) and have excellent quality.

the problem is your source material. gigo.