Put the SOUND down LOW

I can’t hear the tracks that I’ve downloaded. - Make sure you can hear other things, like YouTube. Make sure the volume is up. Check Settings: Sound.

If you still can’t hear anything, your computer may not be able to play DXD files. You can simply add a converter (see our converter listings below). You can then plug headphones into the converter. I can’t get the sound loud enough on my computer.

- Make sure the sound bar is all the way up in Setting: Sound, and on your computer dashboard.

If it’s still too quiet, you can simply add a converter (see our converter listings below). You can then plug headphones into the converter. The headphone volume control on the converter will provide excellent volume. What is the advantage of “high resolution”?

- It sounds like you’re actually there in the room with the musicians in a good recording session. If it’s a great piano or violin or cello, you can tell.

What are the kinds of high resolution?

- There’s 16/44.1, 24/88.2, 24/96, 24/192, 24/356, 32/384, and 32/768 (the highest). The first number shows the length of each digital “word,” such as 16 bits. The second number shows how many thousand times a second the word “samples” (that is, records) the original sound. “44.1” means the track visits the sound 44,100 times a second. 16/44.1 is the measurement (or resolution) of the sound on a CD. What is a sampling rate?

- The higher the sampling rate, the more accurate the description. The computer actually visits the original master tape as many as 768,000 times a second. This is written 768 kHz (kiloHertz, or a thousand vibrations), as in 32/768. What is DXD? - It’s short for Digital Extreme Definition. DXD is a recording format that uses a very high sampling rate of 24/352.8 to 32/384. Merging Technologies and Pyramix incorporated the DXD format into their workstations to provide a higher standard than was available at that time. Initially it was used as a master file from which lower resolutions were extracted. DXD Data is transferred three times faster than with DSD64, and is eight times larger than a CD’s transfer rate. It has a more