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No guarantees...

Posted by EdAInWestOC (A) on November 24, 2014 at 17:11:27

In Reply to: Hi-Rez: trying to sell you the same music again? posted by Munkie_NL on November 22, 2014 at 03:22:20:

Most of my 24/192 or 24/96 hi-rez digital stuff is from my own LPs. I have purchased about 16 downloads, either directly or as a coupon that came with a LP. Some of these are very good and some are no better than CD quality.

The reasons range from the quality of the master tape (not needing anything more than low-rez) to perhaps the processing of the company that produces this stuff. I bought some titles from the same place that you included a link to in your original post and the results there were mixed.

What I bought from there were DSD downloads and three of the four that I bought were good. One was clean and decent but not better than anything else I have heard.

I think its a throw back to what I mentioned above and the fact that we look for top quality pressings to begin with and care about our analog playback rigs. A hi-rez download is not likely to be an eye opener for many of us.

I'd wager its about the same percentage of eye openers as we find in audiophile repressings from labels like MoFi. Unless the original pressings were limited or down right screwed up to begin with the gains to be realized from an audiophile pressing can be somewhat less than overwhelming.

The same goes for hi-rez downloads. Your not going to get more fidelity than exists on the master tape and depending on that you can get a mixed bag. Since we already have decades worth of audiophile pressings made from the original master tapes when they were newer I think its fairly unlikely we are going to get any hi-rez downloads that are going to shock anyone who has cared about fidelity for the past 30+ years.

Ed

Life is analog...digital is just samples thereof

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