Popular Post The Computer Audiophile Posted June 11, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 11, 2019 I've long thought we as audiophiles obsess over the items that we have some control. We all should understand that recording and mastering are the holy grail to sound quality. However, we can't do much to about those items. We can however seek out different things and one of those is higher sampling rates. The marketing gods have done a fantastic job of selling the stair step graphics to us that show high resolution as a smooth line rather than jagged redbook staircase. So be it. We want better and are willing to do what we can in our attempts to get something better. In my experience the difference between redbook and high resolution recordings are due to the playback software and hardware used in our homes. Redbook is the most difficult to reproduce due to filtering issues. Some companies have great filters and their products reproduce Redbook better than the rest. Other companies use bad Redbook filters. This makes high resolution sound better on their gear. Seeking higher and higher sampling rates and bit depths is a fools errand. If it makes people happy, that's cool with me. However, I think it could actually hurt the sound quality in the long run. If labels churn out DR4 albums at 24/192 and claim this is to satisfy those seeking higher quality sound, then we all lose. If we vote with our dollars and ask for better remasters at whatever sampling rate, then we all win. So far we've been asking for the wrong thing. Ajax, tmtomh and pkane2001 1 2 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
Popular Post The Computer Audiophile Posted June 12, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 12, 2019 6 minutes ago, sandyk said: Frank I don't give a damn what Mansr and yourself are saying,. Along with many other members , and millions of people worldwide who put their money where there mouth is and prefer to purchase high resolution PCM and DSD in preference to RBCD, I can hear a marked improvement with well recorded 24/192 with genuine musical content to >55kHZ, to the down converted 16/44.1 version. You probably believe that all Bit Perfect Music Software sounds the same too ? It no more sounds the same than S/W used for example to convert 24/192 .aiff to 24/192 .wav Recently I assisted Barry Diament to test 4 different Software versions for the conversion from .aiff to .wav for his recently released Kay Sa album, and the results from all 4 sounded a little different, with both Barry and myself agreeing on which version sounded best. With the selected version, Barry described it as " more getting out of the way" I now have all 5 previous High Res albums from Barry after conversion from the .aiff of the original made using the new S/W , and the reconverted albums sound markedly better than those already in my possession. As Paul pointed out, many people regret converting their music to .mp3 and disposing of the original CDs too , based mainly on claims made at the time by people like yourself and others like Mansr.. Alex You know you can just put two tracks in Audacity and flip the phase on one to see and hear the differences between the two right? esldude and tmtomh 2 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
Popular Post The Computer Audiophile Posted June 13, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2019 20 minutes ago, sandyk said: Like many other members here, I prefer to use my ears , not look at instrumentation beforehand to tell me how something should sound. Neither do I accept that the players used with Audacity or Sound Forge sound as revealing as JRiver 25 when playing from System Memory. You could still use your ears by saving the difference file and playing it in the player of your choice. esldude, tmtomh and lucretius 3 Founder of Audiophile Style | My Audio Systems Link to comment
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