Throwing my 2ยข in I can tell you that I spoke with my daughter's boyfriend, who happens to be a digital mastering engineer, and he told me the following:
When music is prepared for issuing on a CD all the mixing and editing is done at 24 bit and whatever sampling rate the engineer is comfortable with, be it 44.1, 88.2, 48, 96, etc., Then a 24 bit / 44.1 kHz digital master is produced, in other words, whatever the "working" sampling rate may have been, it is down sampled to 44.1 kHz. And finally this 24 bit / 44.1 kHz digital master is dithered down to the 16 bit /44.1 kHz digital master used to actually make the CD. This goes a long way in explaining why they chose to release 24 bit / 44.1 kHz versions - while it's still a higher resolution than the 16 bit /44.1 kHz CD version, it is still not a true high resolution version. Therefore the potential cash cow of a true high resolution digital, i.e. 24 bit with a 88.1 or 96 kHz sampling rate, release still remains for yet another round of Beatles re-re-re-re-re-re-issues. So my advice is keep your wallets ready. I completely agree with what Chris stated: > Back to The Beatles - it is perfectly feasible for EMI to release the > albums at 24/192, all that is required is the will (on EMI's part) to do > it. > I can't imagine that this will happen anytime soon, for reasons of > copyright security if nothing else. The potential of hi-res release does > still remain. Since once the true high resolution digital versions are released the cash cow will be dead........................ No, wait, there still may be some life left in that beast since they can still release the individual tracks of the multi-track masters so that people can make their own remasters, first at CD resolution and then re-release them in a high resolution version. Sure the cow may end up on life support but it still won't be quite dead, at least not until the last baby-boomer dies. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72852
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