Audacity Forum

Just a quick update, I reset the stream format decoders in my Squeezebox Duet so that the SB wasn't doing the encoding locally and my god what a difference that has made to the SQ. I can now play Flacs and not be able to distguish them from the WAVs. I also lowered the input on my Cakewalk when reco...

oK, settled on 24/44.1KHZ WAVs

I seem to consistently prefer these to 16/44.1khz wavs on doubleblind tests.

Q, are there better wav to Flac convertors than those in Audacity?

I saw Sox mentioned.

Thanks all, I have made some further improvements to the sound quality by reducing the Impedance on my moving coil phono stage. I'm currently listening to some test WAVs recorded at 24bit/48hz and they sound very good. However, when I downsample them to Flac they lose a bit of the sparkle. I've also...

Hey WC, Thanks so much for your advice. I've followed your settings (I also resett the jumpers on the back of the Cakewalk) and it sounds much improved, hardness has gone and harmonics are improved as well :D With respect to the Quality settings in Audacity should I set both the 'Real time conversio...

Hi I've recently attempted to record my record collection with mixed results. I'm using a very well set up TT into a standalone phono stage which in turn is then connected to a Cakewalk UA1G USB convertor, hooked up to my laptop using its own battery supply. I then ripp to Audacity using 36bit 96khz...