16 bit files almost unlistenable now...

[Teresa]

1 hour ago, firedog said:

...And certainly wouldn't be the first time SACDs were produced from upsampled Redbook...

 

Prior to multichannel computer music files the only way to get discrete lossless multichannel was to release on SACD or DVD-Audio.

 

Thus there were two reasons to release on SACD:

• Multichannel surround sound
• High resolution audio

Sometimes you get one or the other and sometimes you get both.

 

Multichannel recordings made in the 1980s to 1990s were mostly 16/44.1. In the early days of HDTracks they ran into trouble as they wrongly believed that SACD always meant high resolution, it doesn't. Sometimes SACDs are released just for the multichannel. 

[Teresa]

On ‎8‎/‎29‎/‎2018 at 4:50 PM, Sal1950 said:

 ...If I posted here I could fly like Superman, then you'd rightfully expect proof. And I'd be embarrassed that I was not able to supply it.

 

You do realize that flying is one of the most common of dreams. Most of us have flown in our sleep, no need to prove it. Now if one can fly when awake that's a different story. The simple act of flying would prove it. If you can fly when awake but can't fly in front of other people you have a real problem.

[Teresa]

23 hours ago, esldude said:

It most definitely is in the US. Just ask Bernie Sanders. He's both a US liberal and socialist. His words.

 

 Bernie Sanders in not a liberal, he is a progressive and calls himself a democratic socialist. 

 

20 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

re:  there is zero contradiction between a democracy and "socialism"...

 

Correct. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy. Capitalism and socialism are economic systems not governing systems as democracy and autocracy are. Many countries have mixed economies with both elements of capitalism and socialism. Thus even completely socialist governments can be democracies.

 

15 hours ago, wgscott said:

The Republicans and Democrats are essentially two different right wings of the same state-capitalist business command-economy party...

 

Many on the real left call them Demopublicans, as both parties do the bidding of the corporate elite who finance them. The democrats appear to be for the people but it is all lies, they are there so no real citizen supported party ever wins control of the government. We like sheep keep voting for the lesser of two evils and we keep getting screwed.

[Teresa]

10 minutes ago, Sal1950 said:

And Al Gore invented the internet, everyone knows that

 

False, see fact check. What Al Gore actually said during the interview with Wolf Blitzer in March 1999 was, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet." The story that Gore said he invented the internet was created by Dick Armey, a Republican member of Congress. Armey's imaginary wording was then picked up by the media, since what Gore actually said wasn't a good enough story.

 

Al Gore co-sponsored the legislation that created defensenet, a project that military computers and later grew into the worldwide web.