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In Reply to: RE: Thanks, I think I'll get a couple of those. nt posted by Sprezza Tura on January 29, 2015 at 09:00:27
In particular, I was looking at the two Simon and Garfunkel albums. I have some recent Paul Simon at 24 bit and one or two cassettes of S&G (which I can now only listen to in my truck) but not even any S&G on vinyl. Two 24/96 albums for <$25 is too good to pass up (unless you tell me that the CD versions are just as good).
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I highly recommend the S&G albums. These are brand new remasters from the original master analog tapes, with no corresponding CDs I am aware of. I have them all at 192. If you can stretch for 192 I would, if not the 96Khz version are more than good.EDIT: There is it seems a Complete Albums CD box set that was released in November derived from the 192 masters. Have not compared.
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On the one hand, it's probably the best I've ever heard that album (didn't have a system this good last time I heard it, tho'). Crystal clear vocals and nuances in production that I'd not previously noticed. And on the other, I've never heard a recording with so much tape hiss. It's really obvious on the dynamic title track; my QB-9 lays it bare.
The 2014 192 (and 96) mastering is by far the definitive digital edition.
Tape hiss on BOTW is well known, and has been on every version I have ever had. It was especially annoying on the LP!
The QB9 is primo! I really wish Ayre made a DAC with an AES, BNC, and USB input. I would buy it in a heardbeat.
It has been a long time since I've heard these songs, wasn't aware of the tape hiss issue - lol.
Ayre showed a new headphone amp/DAC at CES with a "Toslink" input (I think that's the same as AES?). The engineer claimed it sounds nearly as good as the QB-9 and at a price point far cheaper. Maybe Ayre will introduce more affordable products?
For some reason, Bridge is the hissiest of the S&G albums, probably, I am guessing, because they probably bounced between multitracks.
Yes! Saw that Ayre product in the various CES reports. Looks nice.
PONO!!!!!!!phew, I almost went 24 h w/o giving NY a BJ
;^)
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LOL..funny, 20% off, and 40% specific titles from HDT a month after Pono launched. HMMmmmmmmmm.
we'll start seeing prices come down w/o having to use sales and coupons (especially 'cuz HDT quit sending me coupons/newsletters and never replied to my request to be added back into their system).
Hey Pono/HDT, what do you say to $8-10 for 16/44 and $10-12 for 24/88-96? I'd buy a lot more music at those prices (try new artists and re-purchase stuff I already have at 16/44).
I agree 100% with your pricing scheme.
However, yet AGAIN we go back to the rotten apple that is iTunes, where lossy albums are priced at 8-13 dollars.
but, as I understand it, the labels sold the files to Apple in full (CD) resolution and *Apple* threw out the "extra" bits. I see no reason whatsoever that Pono, HDT, et al. should charge *more* for 16/44 than Apple charges for mp3.
I do NOT know this for sure, but I was under the impression iTunes did not do any conversions, meaning they receive "mastered for iTunes" files already in AAC, and not the master files.
If somebody knows for sure that would interesting.
Say what you want about apple, but the fact hey convinced people to pay 10-12 bucks for lossy slop is skillful marketing.
In the end it is not who did what, not even who payed whom to do what. In the end it's what's in the contract, since this is all intellectual property rights, not material goods.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
In my trials, I could distinguish 24 from 16 bit but couldn't reliably tell 44 kHz from higher sample rates . . . I usually draw the line at 96 kHz (plus, I'm a cheapskate).
Haha..you will be thrilled with the 96 S%Gs then.
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