In Reply to: RE: PONO: What it is REALLY about posted by Sprezza Tura on January 16, 2015 at 08:11:50:
My comparisons were of DSD downsampled to 88/24 or 176/24 vs. direct capture to these PCM formats. However, it is possible that the result of converting DSD to 44/16 will be as good as direct capture. (It could even be the same if the converter was native DSD and did its own conversion to PCM.
My attitude toward 44/16 down conversions now is: Who cares? I consider 44/16 to be a compressed format and of value only for historical purposes. There is no longer any market or technical need to distribute 44/16 recordings where there is already a hi-res digital master if the audience is people who care about sound quality. It's a waste of time to tweak the 44/16 version once one already has a great sounding hi-res master, IMO.
I believe that hi-res releases of new digital recordings should be priced with a very small discount for 44/16 format off of the studio master format. However, where remastering of classic analog recordings is involved, then high prices are entirely justified to cover the cost of amortizing the remastering process, which is a skilled process, something that requires both engineering and art and is not within the grasp of a button pushing technician.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: PONO: What it is REALLY about - Tony Lauck 10:30:02 01/16/15 (18)
- RE: PONO: What it is REALLY about - Sprezza Tura 10:55:59 01/16/15 (17)
- RE: PONO: What it is REALLY about - Tony Lauck 11:12:01 01/16/15 (16)
- RE: PONO: What it is REALLY about - Garg0yle 11:26:48 01/16/15 (14)
- RE: PONO: What it is REALLY about - Sprezza Tura 11:30:12 01/16/15 (13)
- RE: PONO: What it is REALLY about - Garg0yle 11:50:18 01/16/15 (12)
- Cost and availability of CDs keeps the format alive - Dave_K 14:31:30 01/16/15 (7)
- RE: Cost and availability of CDs keeps the format alive - Tony Lauck 17:30:34 01/16/15 (6)
- there's this thing you apparently haven't heard of - mbnx01 20:40:12 01/16/15 (4)
- RE: there's this thing you apparently haven't heard of - Tony Lauck 07:25:17 01/17/15 (3)
- RE: there's this thing you apparently haven't heard of - Sprezza Tura 09:31:34 01/17/15 (2)
- RE: there's this thing you apparently haven't heard of - Tony Lauck 10:57:34 01/17/15 (1)
- RE: there's this thing you apparently haven't heard of - Sprezza Tura 11:05:38 01/17/15 (0)
- RE: Cost and availability of CDs keeps the format alive - Sprezza Tura 20:20:24 01/16/15 (0)
- does your town have a Walmart? - mbnx01 13:19:51 01/16/15 (2)
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- RE: PONO: What it is REALLY about - Sprezza Tura 12:00:24 01/16/15 (0)
- RE: PONO: What it is REALLY about - Sprezza Tura 11:20:55 01/16/15 (0)