Hey, give us some time! Personally I had heard nothing about this format until you posted here, and this release has only been out for 5 days!
Having said that, I picked it up yesterday, and in the worst techno nerd/audiophile tradition, I've starting looking at the technical aspects of the disc before I've actually started to listen to it... The DVD is authored as a standard DVD, plus extra data files. There's some software for both Mac and PC, presumably some sort of player (I didn't try either), and a folder containing MP3, AAC(MP4), and WAV copies of all the tracks. I was able to copy the WAV's by simply dragging and dropping, and they seem to play fine. I've also ripped the DVD audio tracks. Visually, it appears that the files may be identical. They have the same measured peak and average levels. Unfortunately, the tool I would normally use to do a binary compare doesn't work on 24/96 audio, so I need to find something that will. A spectral analysis shows a smooth high frequency roll off, extending to 48kHz, suggesting it hasn't been simply resampled. One thing I'm a bit of a loss to explain though, is why they're calling this a new format? From all appearances, the music is stored conventionally, it's just that this disc contains 4 different standard formats. The fun will really start, when I listen to the two uncompressed formats.... Cheers, Dave -- DCtoDaylight Audiophile wish list: Zero Distortion, Infinite Signal to Noise Ratio, and a Bandwidth from DC to Daylight ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DCtoDaylight's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49956 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
