Labarum;649354 Wrote: > The point is you might be surprised, if you weren't so dismissive. > > But for my money the musical quality of the performance and the > technical skill of the recording engineer are more important than any > big numbers quoted for the distribution medium.
you could say that again imho most the CD system have better performance than most recordings ever made, making hirez a rather esoteric need and hobby. I do have a lot of DVDA and 1500 hirez files so far. it is also obvius that it's a sales pitch HD tracks are rarely selling any new " real " hirez recordings. they sell 40 yo old stuff remastered ? the remastering may be well over due and be a great service to the recording, but there is no need to use 24/192 for it's playback media. But to sell to audiophiles you have to abandon the " bad " CD and use something else. i think we had this debate quite often the last years, one finding is that many hirez releases do sound better ( ofcourse ) but thats very likely a better master and not the same as the CD master, and if a CD track is avaible at the same disc it is ofcourse not the same master.. ;) a classic example of shooting the messenger, bad recordings are delivered on CD CD=bad . It's like blaming the box when the pizza is no good. I will continue to sometimes buy hirez if I think it's a recording that demands it, also due to system synergies as my rig " prefers " hirez ( not uppsampled 16 bit, it can do that all by itself ). -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88756 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
