Topic: ua-5 microtrack and h120

[kingfish]

ok, so i am going to record on thursday night, but because of my schedule, might not have the time to run a test in my living room before that show.  heres my question:

if i set the ua-5 to advanced, take the coax out and run to the mt, i am going to run 24/48.  all good.

but, can i take the optical out of ua-5 at the same time and record to the h120??  i am aware that the 120 will only record 16 bit, and thats cool.  the faq says that if the 120 is fed a 24 bit signal it will truncate the last 8 bits, and record at 16.  is this going to be a seriously degraded recording, or will it be a perfectly fine 16 bit recording??

has anyone tried this??

if i get a chance to experiment with this at home before the show thursday night, i will post results here.

tia.

[EYES]

yes i have seen the ua5 > optical>jb3, ua5>coax>mt run together, so it should work with the h120

[Brian Skalinder]

the faq says that if the 120 is fed a 24 bit signal it will truncate the last 8 bits, and record at 16.  is this going to be a seriously degraded recording, or will it be a perfectly fine 16 bit recording??

has anyone tried this??

I and many others have done this, though not necessarily with the H120.  Any 16-bit recorder will truncate the least significant 8 bits from a 24-bit source.  Whether "perfectly fine" or degraded is in the ears of the beholder.

[SmokinJoe]

Yeah But.....

I have never seen the setting in my H120 to read 48khz.  The FAQ says you can, but I've never done it.  Maybe I need a different version of Rockbox or maybe it will just autodetect it from the bit rate on the incoming optical.  At any rate, if you end up with 48khz wave file data with 44.1khz headers I think it won't sound right on playback until you fix the headers.  I'm not saying this will happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does.

I'm curious to see how you made out.