magiccarpetride;613594 Wrote: > The most idiotic irony is that anything that gets recorded today is by > default recorded using 24 bit depth. What record companies do then is > mix and master these recordings by dithering them down to 16 bit for > mass distribution. > > What's happening right now is that the same companies seem to be going > back to their already crippled 16 bit material and upsampling it, with > a mindless push of a button, to 24 bit. Then they turn around and > charge their consumers premium price for that cheap-and-dirty magic > trick. > > Appalling!
You've right - the move to high resolution can be a mixed blessing since many recordings from the early days of digital recording were made at either 16 or 20 bit and not 24 bit. Luckily that was the early to mid 1980s and who needs or even wants a high resolution Duran Duran recording? -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 (oops) -> Touch '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=85846 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
