magiccarpetride;613771 Wrote: > As is always the case, mediocre organizations will hire mediocre people > who will go for mediocre results. People almost always go for the low > hanging fruit. What's easier: searching for the original 24 bit master > tracks, or pushing the "Convert" button and upconverting the readily > available 16 bit tracks to 24 bit?
Can be worse, they don't want their master out there where it can be copied, but still want's t sell 24 bit... If the record is old the may be no better than the 16 bit master avaible, it can be an old analog tape that is falling to pieces thus the digitalisation done 15 years ago is the best preserved copies :-/ but they still want to sell you 24 bit. Also note the cynical practice of never releasing the same master as 24 bit and CD I think I have one DVDA and CD that is from the same master. Othervise you could actually compare them ? Anyway it's no guarante that the newfangled 24 bit master is best if it is of the loudness war type. If you are lucky you cold have a good old CD, the digititalisation may be worse but if the source material is better that always wins. Remaster in a popular genre these days usually means that you should second hand shop for the original CD.. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85846 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
