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In Reply to: RE: Audio System Performance (a rant) posted by Tony Lauck on December 7, 2012 at 13:22:37:
Tony -
A couple years ago I heard Garrick Ohlsson play one of his great Chopin concerts. The next day I went to the Hyperion site and downloaded his recording of the Polonaises. Dreadful: no bass, honky upper mids, distant, muffled, no highs, gritty, flat as a pancake. Overall, like the Bad Old Early Days of CD. Confirmed it on multiple systems, with CAL Sigma II, Metric Halo ULN2, and Universal Audio 2192 converters. Undeterred (or foolish) I bought his box set on CD, thinking I just had to have his work, no matter how bad it sounded. The CDs are terrific. (ahh - big sigh here)
I wrote Hyperion, asking how this could be. They replied that the files were identical to the CDs, and yes, they had listened to both and they sounded identical.
It remains a mystery to me. OK, the response I got from Hyperion is probably from some flunky charged with dealing with those pesky customers, so let's ignore that. But the difference between the FLAC files and the CD is so huge - someone at Hyperion must have heard both. WTF.
WW
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