All HD Downloads not created equally

[Hawkbilly]

I've had a few disappointing downloads, so this wasn't a big surprise to me, but definitely disappointing.

 

http://www.itrax.com/Pages/ArticleDetails.php?aID=32

 

 

[Julf]

A lot of the "Hi-res" downloads seem to be upsampled CD material, and some of it is SACD stuff badly (or not at all) filtered before resampling. There are good ones, of course, but they almost seem to be an exception rather than the rule

 

[Kevin_O]

This article is about a year old...

 

[Julf]

Unfortunately things don't seem to have improved much...

 

[James1776]

The link sucks! It goes to an article done in micro print. I had to copy the entire thing, paste it to a word document and then double the font to actually read it!!

 

Yea Gods!

 

That said, I agree with the idea that simply copying the music into a file at a higher resolution is a bit of a fraud. Up-sampling to the higher resolutions is a cheat. It is like a used car salesman pretending the 1976 Ford on the lot is a 1996 because they changed the vin number.

 

[esldude]

In most browsers, holding the CTRL button while hitting the + button will zoom in/enlarge the page view. Conversely, CTRL and - will reduce the size.

 

The link does seem to be small print, but a couple of CTRL &+ pushes enlarged it. Much simpler than cut and paste to word or some such.

 

Doesn't change the fact lots of supposedly Hi_res material isn't. The industry needs to develop a simple agreed upon provenance for each recording they sale. Even without that it behooves serious companies to provide background on what the Hi-Res file was originally recorded and how it was processed by the time you get it from them.

 

[James1776]

There needs be a simple industry standard...something like "24/96 recorded from master analogue tape" v "upsampled to 24/96 from original CD".

 

That said, I have not been disappointed by any HD Tracks product I have bought.

 

[Julf]

Good to hear you haven't had disappointments from HDTracks - I have had more negative than positive ones. Which ones have you gotten from HDTracks?

 

[James1776]

Try Blue Bossa, Fire Beneath my Fingers, Charlie Haden's 'Sophisticated Ladies', The Carpenters, and the Cambridge Singers Christmas Album (not Hi-Rez)...I also have a good number of individual tracks from a lot of albums.

 

None has disappointed and some sound amazing. Fire beneath my Fingers is maybe my best sounding recording of classical music.

 

[Julf]

Thanks, @James1776, have to check them out. The pop/rock stuff from HDTracks has definitely been disappointing.

 

[Hawkbilly]

A lot of the Pop/Rock on HDTracks looks to be 44/16 redbook stuff anyway, and not HD at all. They do have some classic albums (like Fleetwood Mac) in high resolution formats, but I haven't tried them yet, so I don't know how they sound.

 

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