Dreaming Jester Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Hi everyone! Glad to be part of the community Taking opportunity to post these (e-Onkyo, Dire Straits, Love Over Gold - 192kHz/24 bit FLAC): Any comments (as well as opinions on e-Onkyo downloads)? Link to comment
wgscott Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 It looks like 96 kHz sampling would (and did) capture all the signal and noise. Link to comment
Dreaming Jester Posted May 3, 2014 Author Share Posted May 3, 2014 Could it be upsampled stuff? Isn't this a bit suspicious looking at 20k? I've been listening to this download for a few days now and comparing it to FLAC rip of an old West Germany Vertigo Red Swirl CD of the same album. Honestly, can't hear much difference if any. Same master maybe? Link to comment
Teresa Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 This appears to be either from an SACD (perhaps the Japanese SHM-SACD) or DSD mastered based on the ultrasonic noise captured in your plot spectrum. Love over Gold is my favorite Dire Straits album and a great sounding analog recording, the 180 gram LP is excellent, sorry this download didn't sound much better than the CD for you. I have dementia. I save all my posts in a text file I call Forums. I do a search in that file to find out what I said or did in the past. I still love music. Teresa Link to comment
elcorso Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 This appears to be either from an SACD (perhaps the Japanese SHM-SACD) or DSD mastered based on the ultrasonic noise captured in your plot spectrum. Love over Gold is my favorite Dire Straits album and a great sounding analog recording, the 180 gram LP is excellent, sorry this download didn't sound much better than the CD for you. Hi Teresa, I agree with you, it looks like downsampled from DSD, but I don't believe the 'noise' could be listenable by humans ears... Best, Roch Link to comment
Synfreak Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Teresa seems to right on the spot. It seems that this was sourced from DSD. If they have used the DSD remaster from the SHM-SACD, you should be fine, as that is my go to version of this album. Esoterc SA-60 / Foobar2000 -> Mytek Stereo 192 DSD / Audio-GD NFB 28.38 -> MEG RL922K / AKG K500 / AKG K1000 / Audioquest Nighthawk / OPPO PM-2 / Sennheiser HD800 / Sennheiser Surrounder / Sony MA900 / STAX SR-303+SRM-323II Link to comment
goldsdad Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Could it be upsampled stuff? Isn't this a bit suspicious looking at 20k? No, not upsampled, but it looks like an extremely steep shelving filter (as steep as a brick wall filter) at about 20 kHz has been applied to a source before conversion to DSD and then conversion to 192 kHz PCM with a low pass filter to remove most of the HF noise. Link to comment
wgscott Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 Hi everyone! Glad to be part of the community Welcome! (Sorry I missed it the first time around.) There definitely is real content up to about 30kHz. The background (noise) does look weird to me too, as you and others have noted. I defer to Goldsdad. Is it possible there was a second round of processing, up-sampling from 96kHz to 192kHz? The top half of the spectrum being both noise-free and signal-free is quite odd. Link to comment
Dreaming Jester Posted May 3, 2014 Author Share Posted May 3, 2014 Thanks, Teresa! I'm new to computer audio anyway. I have a few other 24/192 downloads that look different. That's why I asked. Thanks for everybody's response Link to comment
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