Audio CD 24bit, Nero & Sound Forge

[xbox360]

Hello to everyone, I tried this use cdex to extract a song, then opened the song in Sound Forge an selected bit-depth converter (sellect 24bit), then opend nero to burn the fils & it works !

Can anyone test & tell me if this worked for u aswell ?

[Blue_MiSfit]

What are you trying to accomplish? Ripping a track from an audio CD (16 bit 44.1KHz), and changing the bit depth to 24 won't boost the sound quality any.

~MiSfit

[xbox360]

Yeah i know that, just wanted to fake it (24bit). what i beleive is maybe a decoder treats the file diferently just because the bit is different.

[raquete]

what i beleive is maybe a decoder treats the file diferently just because the bit is different.i know what you mean(interesting) but we can edit in 24 bit and have any standalone HDCD player but i don't know if nero or any other recognize 24 bit files to be burned...do you know something about it?
regards

[Mug Funky]

IIRC there's an alternate wav input plugin for nero that supports loads more wav types.

...but it's going to decode everything to plain old 16 bit LPCM for burning. your best bet is to find a tool to "dither" 20/24 bit audio down to HDCD compliant 16 bit PCM.

as far as i'm aware there isn't any tool for this (there may be hardware for it though). from what i gather, the bottom 2 bits of HDCD define the compression curve used to encode the audio to 16 bits, and the player goes and expands the audio according to this curve. because they'll appear as white noise to a normal CD player, they also serve the purpose of dithering the 16 bit signal to increase percievable dynamics (though not as well as noise-shaped dither). i'm probably wrong though...

[raquete]

i'm probably wrong though...you can be right,seems really logic...only one observation: one friend of mind that live in another state tell me that his King Crimsom HDCD in capable standalone player sounds much better and is easy to recognize the quality.(well,he is not an expert)
i have one HDCD player but no one media and i'm interested to know all about and if possible,what i can do to burn without hardware limitations.