Wombat;579590 Wrote: 
> A Love Surpreme is a very old recording that shouldn´t be able to use
> more then ~12bit resolution. You´ll have 12bit of noise down there i
> supppose. 
> 
> I wonder how with that one you can max out the dynamic range of 16bit
> with your 2-way floorstander and need 24bit to hear it more dynamics?
> Did you try to properly downsample this recording and listen to it on
> your system in comparison?

Just listen. Lots of hi- res releases are transcribed from vinyl. And
lots of "old" recordings were very good recordings, and the digital
transcriptions sound great and are more revealing than the original. 

"Dynamics" mean several things, you referred to one. That's only one of
the advantages of 24/96 recordings. And yes, you can hear the
differences when listening to a jazz quartet on my miserable little 2
way  floorstanders.

Again, just listen. Throw out all the numbers you want at me, some of
the hi-res transcriptions sound fantastic. I even pointed out specific
aspects of a 24/44.1 recording that are superior to the redbook
version. Since the Beatles remasters were also transcribed from tape
and are also from the same time period as "A Love Supreme", I guess
they can't sound better, either.

And no, I didn't "properly downsample" it to compare. Why would I? If
you want to do that, spend your time doing it. I listened to the two
versions and can hear differences.

And finally: don't write, listen. I always love it on these forums when
people make such strong statements about a topic that involves LISTENING
to something, when they haven't done the listening.


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