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In Reply to: RE: A final look at PONO... posted by Mercman on January 22, 2015 at 16:12:42
My experience with hi-res content from HDTracks has been very inconsistent. Some of it is great stuff, worth paying the extra $$ for. A lot of it isn't really any better than what I already have. A lot of it is worse. I've learned my lesson. I will never impulse buy any album from HDTracks. I will always research it first. I think the same will have to be true with Pono.
Those graphs are really useful for filtering out bad remaster jobs from consideration. A track by track dynamic range analysis is welcome too, along with or in lieu of a graph. I always search to see if someone has posted a DR analysis before considering whether to buy something from HDTracks. Frequently, I will find what I'm looking for on Computer Audiophile or Steve Hoffman forums.
The spectrum plots aren't quite as valuable as the DR data, but they can be useful in flagging upsampled 44.1k material, or revealing other technical issues with the mastering job.
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Research is KEY.
Any sub par hirez releases are not due to over hyping the benefits of higher resolutions, but due to the idiots who are being paid to master them.
Let's not confuse the medium with the methodology.
" Any sub par hirez releases are not due to over hyping the benefits of higher resolutions, but due to the idiots who are being paid to master them."
Many of those idiots who master those butchered recordings have given the excuse, "I'm just trying to keep my studio open and my kids fed." They are "just following orders". The orders come from the producers and the musicians. So blame them. Buy and large I blame the idiots who buy these recordings from the same artists and the same record labels, time after time. The mastering engineers are only whores. The real idiots are the customers for these recordings.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
I remember how dissapointed I was with the sound of the Warner releases of the old James Taylor titles. The CD quality was as satisfying as the 24/192 versions.
On the other hand, you and I enjoy classical music and hi res consistently delivers a superior musical experience.
Yes, they are useful to a point.Listening as well completes the analysis.
And you are correct; many of the so called hi res recordings sold as 192/24 don't measure up or sound that good.
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