HDtracks 48/24 received as 96/24

[photonblur]

Hello,

 

I down-loaded a file from Cassandra Wilson's Another Country at HDtracks. The file was listed as 48/24. My digital system is Imac/iTunes->squeezebox touch edo->w4s dac-2dsdse. My dac displays 96 for the file. Does this sound like an idiosyncrasy of my system or an HDtrack's issue? I emailed

HDtracks but have not yet received a response.

 

Thanks,

 

pb-

[Synfreak]

It might be labeled as being a 48/24 recording, because the multitrack-recording was made at these rate, but mastered to 96/24.

 

take a look at this thread too:

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f14-music-analysis-objective-and-subjective/cassandra-wilson-another-country-hdtracks-12565/

[CatManDo]

What HDtracks does is confusing. They should at least indcate "24/96 download, 24/48 source material", or better request 24/48 files from the label.

 

After previous upsampling controversies, HDtracks is afraid of indicating a higher sampling rate than what the source material contains, but when people buy a "24/48" download and receive 24/96 files, they suspect that something is wrong.

[drofgnal]

Same thing with The Carpenters. It says 48/24, but my reciever recognizes it as 96/24.