michael123 wrote: > treated differently or not - does not matter, that's the message I am > trying to explain. > 24-bit version has more meaningful data that its CD version, that's the > fact. > Same goes with 192/24 vs 96/24, certain albums on HDTracks do sound > different (better or worse is a matter of personal preference)
If I make a ballpark guess that I have "about" a hundred of something, writing down "100.000000000" on a piece of paper does not make the original estimate any more accurate. The problem is, if it gets restated often enough and separated from the original observation, many people may come to believe the number truly has an accuracy of 9 digits to the right of the decimal. The original Beatles songs were recorded on a 1960s pre-Dolby open reel. The S/N ratio would have been 60 or maybe 65 dB. The frequency range of the tape might have gone to 16K or 17K. Many of the microphones in those days had a similarly limited high frequency bandwidth. To pretend I need a sampling rate that approaches a cut-off frequency of 100KHz with a S/N ratio that is more than double the original recording is simply adding zeros to my number. It is a very legitimate criticism that virtually no one in the recording industry can leave things alone. When old material is re-released, it is invariably tinkered with to "improve" it. Digital tools make that incredibly easy -- some would argue too easy. Sometimes the effort is modest; they just remove a little tape hiss. But often, the frequency balance is tweaked, volume boosted, dynamic range capped and so on in order to give a more "up-to-date" sound. The problem is that you can't simply assign the differences between the CD version and the high-rez versions solely to the format difference. It is far more likely that any difference one hears is more due to the choices made in the underlying tweaking done than anything else. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95771 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
