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RE: Noise levels and dynamic range

We each get to like the recordings we choose to like for whatever reason. But, I agree completely with Chris from a lot of listening experience with 44 and 48k 24 bit recordings. Sampling frequency is way overrated as a determinant of final sound quality, but bit depth is much more crucial in getting us to hi Rez. I have heard some unreleased masters in 44/24 in the same evening I heard some pure DSD played directly to analog masters. Was either a slam dunk winner? No way. They were fully comparable. Do I think 48k/24 Blu-ray sounds decidedly inferior to SACD, 96 or 192k PCM. Very slightly, perhaps. But, they sound pretty good to me in their own right. Again, hardly a slam dunk. If you did not know what was playing, I seriously doubt you could identify which was which..

By the way, Audyssey is incapable of producing spectrographs of signal. It must have been some other tool. But, I think the ultrasonic noise shaping hump of SACD is sonically of not much consequence. That s the only real aberration in the response curve for SACD.


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