HDCD software

Hi guys
Is there any software for converting wave audio format(.wav) to HDCD format and burning cd with it?

 

i doubt it. hdcd uses 20 bit encoding rather than 16 bit so once those extra 4 bits are gon they're gone unless you just add dither (noise) and hope it sounds better.
cheers


julian

 

noise is not important, i want to know it's software

 

What he's saying is is no. Even if there was it wouldn't improve the sound and wouldn't be worth doing

 

you know upsampling DACs (from 44.1khz/16bit to 96khz/24bit ) don't increase audio data (detail and ...) but sound in these DACs is more smooth and analog.
Do think true?

 

amir,
i've not heard many 24/96 or 24/192 dacs that i could get along with however the predominance of these dacs is more due to economies of scale and numerical superiority rather than sound quality. it's simply that these dacs are now cheaper thanks to the a/v phenomenon. upsamplings biggest help for the sound is that it allows the brick wall filter to be moved out of the audiable range and to be made less steep therefore improving the players phase response and other things. if you think about some of the older players with 8, 16 or even sometimes 256 times oversampling this gives you sample rates of 352.8, 705.6 and a massive 11289.6 (1.12896 mhz) these in a purely numerical sense are far superior to a paltry 96 or 192 hz sample rate.
cheers


julian