Up to 40% off selected jazz at Qobuz

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https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/search?q=international-jazz-day-2022

 

[Musicophile]

Some really good stuff in there. Most albums I already own, but I was able to find some for which I had only CD rips and was able to replace them very cheaply with a 24/192 download. And I also bought the latest album from Cecile McLorin Salvant. 

[WAM]

On 5/4/2022 at 9:38 AM, Musicophile said:

Some really good stuff in there.

Yup, I agree. Bought an Elmo Hope album this evening. Thinking about buying John Coltrane, Coltrane. Have this album already on black and silver disc (and thus a rip), but the hi-res offering is pretty tempting.

 

 

[Musicophile]

8 hours ago, WAM said:

Yup, I agree. Bought an Elmo Hope album this evening. Thinking about buying John Coltrane, Coltrane. Have this album already on black and silver disc (and thus a rip), but the hi-res offering is pretty tempting.

 

 

Bought that one as well in 24/192. Very cheap at least on the French store

[semente]

9 hours ago, WAM said:

Yup, I agree. Bought an Elmo Hope album this evening. Thinking about buying John Coltrane, Coltrane. Have this album already on black and silver disc (and thus a rip), but the hi-res offering is pretty tempting.

 

 

 

51 minutes ago, Musicophile said:

Bought that one as well in 24/192. Very cheap at least on the French store

 

Does high res make an audible difference to you (over Redbook) with these old jazz recordings?

[Musicophile]

8 hours ago, semente said:

 

 

Does high res make an audible difference to you (over Redbook) with these old jazz recordings?

The high-res per se doesn’t, the remaster (if we’ll executed) does. 

[WAM]

13 hours ago, semente said:

Does high res make an audible difference to you (over Redbook) with these old jazz recordings?

 

Difficult question. You do not know which master is used. I do not think a remaster, hires or not, is always better, sometimes I prefer the "original". I still do not know what to think of the new hires remaster of The Doors/LA Woman, for example (a little bright sounding to my ears). Sometimes it sounds better, sometimes just different.

 

And it makes a difference if you are streaming Redbook, or spinning a disc (the disc sounds better most of the time (our cd-transport and streamer use the same dac)).

 

It would be nice to compare a cd, a Redbook rip from that cd and a hires file from the same recording (same master), but I am not daft enough yet to give that a try (a matter of time, I am afraid).

 

But I do know there is a lot of "remastered" shit out there, wasted some money... the price of being curious I suppose.  But I am quite happy with Qobuz and Presto hires-downloads. 

 

Disclaimer: my ears, my gear (and my very subjective opinion).

 

[Musicophile]

To get back to the Coltrane album's 24/192 version, I have nothing to compare it to, I simply never owned it in any other format.

 

This particular version sounds ok, not great, and won't win any audiophile prices.

 

Audirvana has calculated a DR of 9-12, so nothing to write home about either. 

 

That said, it's a great album and I certainly won't regret the €6.19 Qobuz is currently charging for it with the Sublime discount (French price).