Hello All,
I know there's been endless debate on this here, and the intent is not to argue which is better or open up the can of worms again, more to simply report what I noticed and suggest trying it for yourself if you have not yet done so.
I was reading through the Sonus Paradisi site the other day, and read with interest that loading the Forcalquier (which I have) in a higher bit rate than 16 would be of advantage to make the full use of it's sound. I've never tried it on this or any other instrument and have always loaded in 16 bit only. Since I have the newer computer with 8GB of RAM, I figured why not? Give it a try and see what happens. I decided my computer would probably be limited to load in "20 bit 32 bit aligned" (and I was indeed close with about .8 GB left after it loaded), so away I went.
Here's what I heard in differences and I wouldn't say it neccesarily made an improvement, more just a few subtle changes and would be one of those what sounds good to one, might not to the next scenarios.
It sligtly softened the sound, as if a person turned down the treble some, just slightly less hiss to the sound, a little cleaner souding. The biggest change I noticed is how it brought up the low end, in fact so much I had to go in and do a bit of re-voicing to tone it down some. The bass was really brought out and again for some this might be desireable and for others not, in my case I was actually looking for a little more low end, so for me this part worked.
Other than that, not much of a difference to my ears and I could actually use it either way.
And there you have it, my 2 cents worth.
Regards
Marc
I know there's been endless debate on this here, and the intent is not to argue which is better or open up the can of worms again, more to simply report what I noticed and suggest trying it for yourself if you have not yet done so.
I was reading through the Sonus Paradisi site the other day, and read with interest that loading the Forcalquier (which I have) in a higher bit rate than 16 would be of advantage to make the full use of it's sound. I've never tried it on this or any other instrument and have always loaded in 16 bit only. Since I have the newer computer with 8GB of RAM, I figured why not? Give it a try and see what happens. I decided my computer would probably be limited to load in "20 bit 32 bit aligned" (and I was indeed close with about .8 GB left after it loaded), so away I went.
Here's what I heard in differences and I wouldn't say it neccesarily made an improvement, more just a few subtle changes and would be one of those what sounds good to one, might not to the next scenarios.
It sligtly softened the sound, as if a person turned down the treble some, just slightly less hiss to the sound, a little cleaner souding. The biggest change I noticed is how it brought up the low end, in fact so much I had to go in and do a bit of re-voicing to tone it down some. The bass was really brought out and again for some this might be desireable and for others not, in my case I was actually looking for a little more low end, so for me this part worked.
Other than that, not much of a difference to my ears and I could actually use it either way.
And there you have it, my 2 cents worth.
Regards
Marc