R1200CL wrote: > Those few hi-res I've purchased from HD-Tracks did sound better than CD > to me.
As I have been pointing out, HDTracks is a great double-blind test. Many of their early offerings (especially earlier on) were upsampled from 44.1 kHz material - but seems nobody really detected that by listening, only by looking at the spectrograms. There is also the issue of comparing apples with apples - many of the HDTracks offerings are slightly different masterings compared to the CDs, so hearing a difference is probably not a result of the sample rate. > It surprises me a bit that Hifi journalists don't ask more technical > questions, like those mention. That would assume that the journalists understand technology :) "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105070 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
