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In Reply to: Been to HD Tracks Lately? posted by Charles Hansen on December 22, 2012 at 21:55:00:
I have compared the original DSD with a few different PCM conversions, at both 96/24 and 88/24. These were obtained from several web sites. It all cases the original DSD sounded better. In my estimation, sufficiently better to justify purchase of this format when buying the recording for the first time. I'm not sure that it is sufficiently better, however, to justify repurchase of an album one already has in hi-res PCM, except for demonstration purposes (don't need too many such recordings) or to satisfy one's curiosity.If one is interested in classical music, then eclassical.com is a much better site, IMO. It allows preview of complete recordings to get an idea of the musical and artistic performance. The pricing is reasonable, as well, especially when music is on sale, often at 50% off. Nothing is more annoying to me than blowing a lot of money for a high resolution recording, only to discover that the music or performance is dreck.
If it is sound quality that one is going after, then without doubt, the best sites are Channel Classics and Blue Coast Records, both of which provide DSD downloads of excellent recordings, and if one's taste is so inclined, excellent musical performances as well.
I have no personal use for pop or rock music and find the HDtracks web site and email marketing obnoxious, because they are constantly pushing stuff that I have no interest in.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Edits: 12/23/12
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Follow Ups
- RE: Been to HD Tracks Lately? - Tony Lauck 07:05:26 12/23/12 (11)
- eclassical.com - mbnx01 11:17:11 12/24/12 (0)
- and email marketing obnoxious, - fmak 08:22:11 12/23/12 (9)
- RE: and email marketing obnoxious, - Tony Lauck 08:32:16 12/23/12 (8)
- RE: and email marketing obnoxious, - AbeCollins 10:57:21 12/23/12 (7)
- I have a 'special' yahoo email account that I never bother to check - Dynobot 11:03:08 12/23/12 (6)
- I use gmail but - fmak 03:26:10 12/24/12 (4)
- RE: I use gmail but - Bob_C 20:56:20 12/25/12 (0)
- RE: I use gmail but - Sprezza Tura 11:57:21 12/24/12 (2)
- Whining - fmak 04:02:09 12/25/12 (0)
- RE: I use gmail but - AbeCollins 12:50:22 12/24/12 (0)
- It's pretty sad when we think of yahoo as a free spam dump site! ;-) - AbeCollins 11:16:02 12/23/12 (0)
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