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In Reply to: RE: 2 better questions posted by dave789 on May 13, 2012 at 01:01:36:
"The web site's high res files are not from Deutsche Grammophon."
I have no idea what web site you are referring to. I can only speak from my personal experience.
HDtracks.com sells a number of DG albums for hi-res download. Most of these are available at 88/24 and were made by ripping the DSD and converting it to PCM. I have one of these 88/24 transfers, Beethoven Symphonies no. 5 and 7 by Carlos Kleiber and the Vienna Philharmonic.
I have no idea how this SACD was created, but from looking at the spectrum it is clear that it was not made by upsampling 44/16 to DSD. It is possible to see that the 88/24 PCM came from DSD by looking at the high frequency noise, which starts rising at 28 kHz. We also have postings from the mastering engineer, Bruce B, who made most if not all of the HDtracks.com SACD to PCM transfers around this time. He has posted as to the equipment and procedures used.
It is quite obvious that this recording is from "Deutsche Grammophon", the artwork has the DG logo, etc. It would seem highly unlikely that HDtracks would selling pirated material for over a year. (I purchased this download in January 2011.)
BTW, the recording has the typical multiple microphone DG sound. Apparently they have not learned how to make good quality orchestral recordings. This issue, of course, has little or nothing to do with the formats involved, plaguing DG's LP and CD releases as well.
Tony Lauck
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Follow Ups
- RE: 2 better questions - Tony Lauck 09:30:43 05/13/12 (9)
- not from DSD - dave789 19:02:53 05/13/12 (3)
- RE: not from DSD - Tony Lauck 19:12:25 05/13/12 (2)
- RE: not from DSD - dave789 19:18:12 05/13/12 (1)
- original source - Joe Murphy Jr 19:53:53 05/13/12 (0)
- Those Kleiber Beethoven 5/7 recordings. . . - Chris from Lafayette 12:36:26 05/13/12 (4)
- RE: Those Kleiber Beethoven 5/7 recordings. . . - Tony Lauck 17:56:52 05/13/12 (3)
- RE: Those Kleiber Beethoven 5/7 recordings. . . - Todd Krieger 22:19:08 05/13/12 (0)
- RE: Those Kleiber Beethoven 5/7 recordings. . . - Kal Rubinson 18:39:42 05/13/12 (1)
- RE: Those Kleiber Beethoven 5/7 recordings. . . - Tony Lauck 19:18:09 05/13/12 (0)
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