I have one thing to comment.

Your CDs and sources are encoded in 16bit 44.1KHz format. Changing it to something else does not theoretically "change" anything. You cant add anything else that is not there at the first place right?


There's one benefit of increasing the bit rate. It gives you more headroom for digital attenuation. Attenuation is often needed so that your source does not clip before it reaches your amplification stage. Since increasing the bitrate normally just pads the extra bits with zeroes only, I personally suggest increasing bitrate but leave the sample rates to default.


yeah, if you can tell the difference, there are only two reasons:

1) Placebo
2) Resampling distorts the origina signal hence you hear the difference. But being the purists most of us are, why do that?

Why worry? I'm not stopping anyone from distorting their sound.

Hey if I were against such ideas, I would not have ordered those NOS tubes from America. Tubes generate lots of 2nd order harmonics. My post was to remind people of the effects of oversampling or increasing bit rates.

thing is to avoid as much alteration as possible.

if the music itself starts at 48000Hz, why stop it from being 48000Hz?