In Reply to: Here's something that not many people know ... posted by Christine Tham on August 17, 2009 at 15:42:06:
>> Also, I doubt any recent HDCDs were recorded using the proprietary HDCD ADC which uses dynamic filters. <<
There is no other machine that will record HDCD besides the two models that Pacific Microsonics made. These were discontinued many years ago, but they are still very good sounding converters.
And they are the only HDCD encoders on the planet. So if a recording was made with HDCD, it was made with the dynamic filters. This is the one HDCD feature that *cannot* be turned off.
But it is also the one HDCD feature that cannot (and never has been) be "decoded".
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- Also wrong! - Charles Hansen 23:50:31 08/17/09 (0)