BIS - e|classical vs. Qobuz

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7 hours ago, chrille said:

 

I am pretty sure BIS records basically everything at 24/96 since quite a few years.

They did a few trials with DSD in the early years of SACD then turned to 24/44.1 for a couple of years and finally 24/96.

 

That is correct.  They have 8 or so SACDs that were recorded in DSD; the rest were 24/44.1.  Then they played around with 24 bit sample rates (there may be one or two 24/88s) until finalizing on 24/96 for the past many years. 

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3 minutes ago, ddetaey said:

I am aware of that. However, I am converting all music to DSD via HQplayer (embeded), so for me it makes sense to start from a professionally converted file. Less work to do by HQplayer

While this is certainly a nit, a small first world problem by any stretch....I will say this:  I'd much rather trust HQPlayer to take an original PCM recording to DSD (any bit rate) than assume the 3rd party doing BIS's SACD authoring process treated it as well.  But again, we all have bigger problems.