Since the start of the year, I bought 719 music files (tracks) totaling 14.4 GBytes. That included 7 MP3 files where buying a CD was not practical and the rest were CDs or Flac downloads.NONE of that music was available as high definition downloads (bit depth > 16 bits and/or sample rate > 44.1 KHz.)
My last high def. purchase was on 9/27/2013. That was four files totaling 26 minutes of music.
I'm buying recorded music based on the work and the performance. High def. versions of those same performances are rarely available. There may be other performances of the same works in high def. but those performances are rarely competitive.
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Edits: 04/10/14
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Topic - High Def. and reality for me - Old Listener 10:25:20 04/10/14 (38)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - Recorder 12:04:19 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - Mercman 10:18:06 04/11/14 (2)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - Bob_C 11:00:13 04/11/14 (1)
- +1* - agattu 02:39:48 04/13/14 (0)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - Presto 09:35:29 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - ted_b 08:19:33 04/11/14 (0)
- It is noteworthy that - fmak 00:08:23 04/11/14 (10)
- Fully agree - and I don't even own a single hi-def file. N/T - carcass93 11:56:32 04/11/14 (0)
- When did you last... - Old Listener 00:42:12 04/11/14 (8)
- RE: When did you last... - Bob_C 12:52:46 04/11/14 (6)
- RE: When did you last... - Old Listener 13:25:42 04/11/14 (4)
- What about your "audiophile bullies" - how much freedom of choice is there? - carcass93 13:30:54 04/11/14 (3)
- RE: What about your "audiophile bullies" - how much freedom of choice is there? - Old Listener 14:12:26 04/11/14 (2)
- That's pretty weak. These were your words, from your post - correct? - carcass93 15:24:31 04/11/14 (1)
- RE: That's pretty weak. These were your words, from your post - correct? - Old Listener 15:35:58 04/11/14 (0)
- +1. N/T - carcass93 13:02:38 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: When did you last...My sense - fmak 03:32:49 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - E-Stat 14:19:50 04/10/14 (0)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - AbeCollins 13:51:35 04/10/14 (17)
- Ridicule me for - G Squared 17:12:10 04/10/14 (15)
- Interesting that the video you linked.. - Ivan303 18:17:26 04/10/14 (0)
- Or on Hi Rez - Ivan303 18:09:22 04/10/14 (0)
- even worse - G Squared 17:19:58 04/10/14 (12)
- and ne from me - Old Listener 18:43:54 04/10/14 (11)
- Actually in Hi Rez and sounding good to me - G Squared 06:27:48 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: and ne from me - John Elison 21:18:58 04/10/14 (8)
- RE: and ne from me - Old Listener 13:34:08 04/11/14 (2)
- Excellent link! Thank you! /nt\ - John Elison 15:17:22 04/11/14 (1)
- RE: Excellent link! Thank you! /nt\ - Old Listener 16:04:15 04/11/14 (0)
- RE: and ne from me - Bob_C 21:27:33 04/10/14 (4)
- and another - Old Listener 22:47:40 04/10/14 (3)
- RE: and another - John Elison 23:30:36 04/10/14 (2)
- a video - Old Listener 00:18:05 04/11/14 (1)
- RE: a video - John Elison 11:50:37 04/11/14 (0)
- Excellent - G Squared 19:15:37 04/10/14 (0)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - Old Listener 15:09:50 04/10/14 (0)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - Sprezza Tura 12:07:06 04/10/14 (0)
- RE: High Def. and reality for me - Roseval 10:38:34 04/10/14 (0)