audiomuze;655422 Wrote: > If you're getting stuff from HDTracks the process is a lot simpler - > just file under crap!
Not quite crap just pretend high resolution, as in standard CD resolution up-sampled to a higher resolution. Just how many frequency spectrum graphs is it going to take for people to get the message. A message along the lines of for every true resolution recording being sold by HDTracks there are at least two pretend high resolution recordings being sold by HDTracks. Here's a frequency spectrum graph taken from one of the songs on a very recent HDTracks offering: The Rolling Stones - 60's UK EP Collection The BS write up about just the high resolution tracks are generated (taken from the HDTracks site): "For the analog to digital transfers, vintage reel-to-reel tape machines were utilized - a modified Ampex 351 with original tube electronics (full track mono and two track stereo) and an Ampex ATR-102 modified with Aria Discrete Class-A Electronics (full track mono and two track stereo). A Sonoma DSD digital audio workstation was the chosen high resolution format and Meitner Design ADC8 and DAC8 MKlV converters were used for the conversion process. Cables used were the cryogenically frozen type supplied to us by Gus Skinas of Super Audio Center. Gus also provided much guidance to Jody Klein, Steve Rosenthal and myself for our first time use of DSD technology. For this HD Tracks release, the Bob Ludwig mastered DSD files were converted to both 176.4kHz and 88.2kHz high resolution PCM with Weiss Saracon conversion software" Pray tell, why does the graph below show almost nothing in the frequencies above 22kHz, which just so happens is exactly what the graph would like if it was made from standard resolution CD? Graph: +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: Snap1.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=12447| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- 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=89863 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
