Apple lossless -vs-24/96

Agree...for your new music going forward...try and buy 24/96 files vs 16/44...not all will be...I like to use HD Tracks....for the higher rez files...even 24/44 sounds better to me...

Would it be best to use J River Media 18 and buy some 24/96 tracks on hdtracks.com?

lads....yes. get JRiver 18 and buy a couple of 24/96 albums from HD Tracks...you will hear the difference.

Some upsamplers such as Wave Editor on Mac do a good job of upsampling. This can improve the playback sound quality of a 44.1 track on most DACs. Why? Because the digital filter in the DAC has less impact on the music data at 96 than at 44.1. The filter "knee" is much lower in frequency for 44.1 files.

If your DAC has selectable digital filters than you can get around this nad make 44.1 sound really good. This is what my DAC has.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

Ok so I downloaded j river 18 and some Hd tracks in 24/96 but my 151 is sill reading at 44.1khz sampling rate. What am I missing? I assume I may need to make sure my sound card is a 24/96 or 24/192 card.