Julf wrote: > 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. > > > > That would assume that the journalists understand technology :)
I've noticed the thing with different masters for different sample rates . You simply cant compare with the CD or CD layer . In the cases where i have used taken HD tracks album ot Itrax downloads and dowsampled them myself I hear no difference . But as noticed HD tracks can sound different . Sometimes it's because of a much better master ! That have happened . Sometimes it's just slightly different sometimes not at all sometimes one is simply louder than the other. It's more or less random they do rarely present the pedigree of their source . It is not the sample rate that makes the difference , wonder if Archimago still has his test files from the blindtest we did a couple of years ago ( that was fun a lot of people participated ) ? The fun part with HD tracks is when do we know that they have a superior master ? We don't that's the problem . Sometimes the early 90's cd can be the best source as the typical "remaster" done >2000 have the loudness war dynamic compression and othe silly stuff and that's what the label pushes out . And what version will the streaming services provide us with ? They don't know as they don't the heavy lifting of building thier catalog themself . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105070 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
