Julf wrote: > Just a warning about the "studio masters" - I don't think Qobuz does any > real integrity checking on the material they get from the record labels, > so just like HDTracks they often end up selling "hi-res" stuff that > isn't - there have been far too many cases of "hi-res" turning out to be > upsampled from 44.1 kHz and zero-padded from 16 bits to 24. Personally I > have only experienced this with HDTracks, but I am not sure Quobuz is > any better. After similar experiences with HDTracks, I have given up on buying hi-rez, plus I don't think that I can hear the difference anyway. My warm endorsement of qobuz comes with a little bit of waring and I should have done it earlier. Once you download, check the spectrum. On couple of occasions I've got transcodes from mp3, once on a brand new recording (Brentano Quartet Beethoven Qt). I have contacted qobuz, they admitted that there is a problem and replaced with a recording of my choosing in Masters.
I have to concur that they sell what is given to them by record companies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98363 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
