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RE: Any emerging consensus here on download quality?

Posted by Harold T. (A) on March 25, 2014 at 11:34:07

In Reply to: RE: Any emerging consensus here on download quality? posted by Jim Treanor on March 25, 2014 at 10:48:55:

Thanks, Jim. Very helpful.

Where do Acoustic Sounds tell you about provenance on their site? I've been unable to find this.

Ike Quebec's Blue and Sentimental AP DSD download (which is really a Grant Green album in terms of solo space given to him) is really revelatory. I have several (non-audiophile) Green LPs, many of his CDs and 3 AP Green SACDs, and I've never heard his guitar tone and attack rendered with this fine detail before; you can hear a faint echo in the studio also. I'm playing the SACDs and the downloads both on the Oppo.

I haven't upgraded my analogue rig (Well-Tempered Classic and old Sumiko BPS) in a long time, so I realize I could do better in LP reproduction. But Nojima Plays Liszt really does have a different quality on LP; when he does high-register trills you can really hear the piano action (in a good way!) on the 176 WAV file, whereas I get a more rounded, 'burnished' sound from the LP.

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