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In Reply to: RE: A final look at PONO... posted by Archimago on January 22, 2015 at 11:44:11
I didn't read your article, yet. But the screen shots tell me that the loudness wars and compression are alive and well, even on the 'premium' downloads available for PONO.
Am I wrong? Like I said, I haven't read your article yet.
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An anecdot... As I was browsing the pono website, I came across an album from the Red Hot Chili peppers i enjoy anywhere but on a hifi system: Californication. The cd is awfully compressed, scoring a DR of 4 (!). 8 bits would suffice. Pono sells a "hires" version... I have not listened to it as I doubt any remaster can save this album. Most remasters these days further reduce the dynamic range. The industry is not going to get converts by offering hires files that do no better than a cd, or fully exploit the potential of 16/44.1.
What you may not realize, is that many of these albums being released in 24 bits on HDT, Qobuz, and Pono are the actual master files the Redbook CDs were created from.Meaning, that is the best you will ever get.
I will say for certain that a bad mastering will diminish the differences between CD and higher resolution. As a matter of fact, it may destroy any differences if their is brickwalling.
And why was brickwalling used? To make the album listenable on little shitty white earbuds.
Edits: 01/22/15 01/22/15
It is not an "article", it is pure opinion.
Pono is a download store front, they do no mastering, and do nothing to change the files. If an artists crushed their catalogs in mastering, that is what you are gonna get.
Going forward, Young and Pono will encourage some artists to remaster their catalogs in 192 for Pono.
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