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In Reply to: RE: Channel Classics getting out of SACD mostly posted by diw on April 23, 2016 at 10:48:12
Looking at my somewhat modest SACD collection I have more BIS than any other label followed by Channel Classics, if Channel drops SACD then I will stop buying their products, BIS for a long time gave us similar warnings but I keep my fingers crossed, they are still offering the format. With Channel the handwriting was on the wall a long time ago with their super cheap cardboard packaging.
Personally I prefer physical media and if hi-rez becomes download only option then I will simply give up SACD.
Despite all the gloom I believe that SACD will not totally disappear, Japanese will carry the torch but at much higher price.
Vahe
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My internet download speed is 12 Mbps, out of curiosity what does this translate in the total time needed to download a 40 minute symphony in stereo and or multichannel?
Just a ballpark number please, and thanks for your help.
Vahe
Another factor would be what's happening at the other end, i.e., how fast the server there can satisfy requests, etc.
Yet another factor would be if the file you're downloading is compressed, and if so, how it's compressed. My internet download speed is between 50Mbps and 80Mbps (depending on the particular date and time of day), and it took me less than 15 minutes to download the BIS Stravinsky recording in my thread below. This is for a 65 minute multi-channel album, which has a size of 2.89 GB in its FLAC incarnation (6.7 GB converted to AIFF). The FLAC files were further compressed into a ZIP archive, which probably also helped with the download speed.
...and that too is a commercial nonsuccess, at least as far as I can see, then I guess I'll get into downloads and all that screwing around with servers, players, software, etc. Yuk!
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It's not half as bad as one might imagine from many of the discussions here. ;-)
I was thinking that now that there are Multichannel High-Rez recordings out there that are not available on physical disc, I might actually have to succumb to downloading. I would probably start with putting them on a USB drive and plugging into my Oppo 93. I was trying to hold off buying a new Oppo until the new model comes out this winter. Since the 93 doesn't handle DSD files over USB, I am wondering whether the FLAC downloads are multichannel. (I can see from the Channel website that the NativeDSD.com downloads are multichannel).
Edits: 05/01/16
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