P Floding;182497 Wrote: > Even if there is some compression, it is hardly noticable. It is way, > way less than the voluntary compression done to make pop CDs sound > "hot" today.
Absolutely. HDCD's (ripped or raw) generally sound fine and even better when going through an HDCD DAC. An HDCD will usually have a lot of care put into its production mastering. I've never heard a "bad" HDCD (regardless of whether the DAC was HDCD capable or not). They certainly don't sound hyper-compressed and there is no point in trying to "downconvert" an HDCD wav to non-HDCD thinking it will sound better. It will sound the same...unless you have an HDCD DAC in which case it will sound worse than it might because you have just pointlessly removed the benefit of HDCD. I have 50+ HDCD's. I don't have an HDCD DAC at the moment. The next DAC I get will certainly have HDCD - I miss it more than I expected. I live in eternal hope that we might get 24-bit masters to download in the future - which would render HDCD irrelevant. -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32967 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
