and the other question is... has listening to a good 16/44 recording ever imposed a limit of my full enjoyment of a great performance?
there are several recordings i own in two versions: the first ripped from the original CD i owned (16/44 flac), the second the HDtracks version at 24/192, and in one case i also have a car friendly 320k MP3. (1) Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby. one of the greatest live recordings ever. adore it. but given the limitations imposed by the original recording, i will be damned if i can hear a difference between the 192/24 and the 320k MP3 (let alone the 16/44 flac). i have tried - someone plays the different versions to me. i love them all, but it seems a random act to try to tell them apart. (2) Grover Washington - Winelight. i actually seem to defualt to the 192/24, seems an ounce better, perhaps a better master tape or a little volume boost. (3) John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - one of my favorite recordings of all time. i prefer the 16/44 rip, the 192/24 seems artificially sharp at worst and pointlessly volume boosted at best, sounding a bit like a DDD CD from 1990AD (shiver). ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 12.04 + LMS 7.7.3 on VMware Player System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- Totem Element Fire Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> MusicalFidelity M1PWR -> Totem DreamCatcher Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado PS500e ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103034 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
