rkernell

Thanks for the reference. I am going to spend this evening going over their site. I am thinking that I will purchase and download the software since it is not expensive. Wish me luck, I think that the replies are getting me into the right direction. Rick

Thanks for the reply. I have loaded the FLAC and VLC files onto my ASUS laptop for portability. The OS is Windows 7. I did this to preclude having a large workstation positioned with my stereo components. Is there better hardware to use for this? Rick

Recently, I have become interested in the 16 bit/44.1 kHz, 24 bit/96 kHz discussion that is ongoing on You Tube. Not one to readily accept others opinions about audio I decided to investigate the question myself, but I think that I took the wrong path, so here I am. I think that I am lucky in finding this group. What I want to do is to be able to route the High Def music files to my Creek EVO 50 Cd DAC which in turn will feed the analog on to the rest of my system. I have downloaded an album in the FLAC format that I have copies of on CD and vinyl so that I can do a comparison showing any differences. In my ignorance, I downloaded VLC onto a laptop and opened the files which were processed and fed to the headphones output jack. I was not able to find the way to feed the bit stream out through any of the pull down tabs, so I stopped and rethought what I had done and I realized that I had probably chosen the wrong process. Is there a primer available that I can use to create a system to play the High Def files? Rick Kernell