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Any emerging consensus here on download quality?

Posted by Harold T. (A) on March 24, 2014 at 11:25:59

I've just recently started listening to some hi-rez downloads on my Oppo 105, and am very happy with them. Mostly they're classic jazz, but I also have the Wilson Audio recording of Beethoven/Enescu for violin and piano and the Reference Recordings Nojima Plays Liszt (176/24). I have compared the latter to the LP and the original CD, and I find the hi-rez file incredibly more detailed than either. I just got the DSD file of Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, a recording I've been curious about for some time, and the drum kit is just amazingly real.

I've got quite a few SACDs of all kinds, and till now that was my favorite medium, but it seems to me that we really have turned a corner, getting closer to the master tape with the good downloads.

I'm not religious about any of this stuff, and I know there's a lot of disagreement about download quality, but has anyone else had my experience? I'm finding the sound of these downloads addictive; even the best LPs and SACDs sound a little smeared by comparison on my system.

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