Wombat wrote: > We can only speculate how the original was mixed exactly. I believe in > 1998 there surely where made mastertapes out of the mix with extended HF > content. > I am also pretty sure vendors like AS get a capture of that tape > delivered. What i highly doubt is that these captures are done 2 times, > one as DSD and one as PCM. > Since AS does not clarify anything about that case my understandingn is > they simply convert PCM themself and let some wackos explain how > beautiful the DSD version is.
I see very few hi-res music titles originating in 1998. A few I have seen like Patricia Barber's "Modern Cool" and Sheryl Crow's "Globe Sessions" are available in SACD for example. Neither of these appear to have genuine high frequency extension beyond 24kHz. I think the chances are good that at best, "Mutations" was recorded in 24/96 and even if mixed in analogue, the frequency extension is basically analogue noise... DSD in 1998 would have been available to mainly the classical folks like Telarc and Sony would have been doing some conversions back then, but chance of Beck doing it in native DSD I believe is nil. Furthermore, no way they would have been doing a multitrack job in DSD even if parts were recorded in DSD. Either way, chances are poor there's any justification for 24/192 or DSD. I think I would even put some money down that this is upsampled 44/48kHz with analogue noise. Alas, I'm not enough of a Beck fan nor want to give Acoustic Sounds any money to buy their offering to check it out myself! Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101068 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
