HDCD cd's

[Solstice380]

@ArveS  You might just have a bad disc.

[Solstice380]

2 hours ago, ArveS said:

Why then is it only hdcd cd's that sounds distorted when played back on my laptop ?( but still play smoothless in my cd player in my stereo )  :)

The DVD drive in your laptop must be the issue.  There must be something “flaky” going on with that unit, or that model.  My non-HDCD CD transport plays them fine to either the McIntosh D150 or the dCS.  I guess I’ve never tried my laptop drives.  I do know that my OWC USB blu-Ray drive sees them fine and DBPoweramp can rip direct as 44/16, or rip them and, doing whatever it does with DSP HDCD selected, decode them to 44/24.  Literally hundreds and hundreds of Grateful Dead and others.  There even a couple Joni Mitchell CDs that were at least available in HDCD. I think Blue...