temerini;521318 Wrote: > Some reviews on RR HRx releases: > > Absolute Sound Review: "Reference Recordings, a company at the > forefront of technical advancements for the past 30 years, has broken > through the technical barriers to deliver to listeners the exact > high-resolution digital bitstreams created during the recording > sessions... Hearing these familiar pieces for the first time in high > resolution was an absolutely mind-blowing experience... If you want the > undisputed state-of-the-art in music reproduction right now, HRx is one > thrilling ride. But consider yourself warned: Once you hear > high-resolution digital done right, there's no going back." - Robert > Harley, The Absolute Sound, January 2009 > > Best of Show award for Greatest Technological Breakthrough: Reference > Recordings HRx ultra-high resolution (176.4/24) digital music format. > (Alan Taffel: The Absolute Sound April/May 2008)
This comment by RR on their own web site is extremely worrying: "As long as the playback system you use does not convert or corrupt the bits, they will sound as wonderful as our original masters" Hogwash. "bits" don't have a sound, they have information... Preserving the correct bits is 5% of the problem - the rest is the DAC (wherever that occurs) and the rest of the replay chain. Not sure how RR feel they can assert you will get the same experience as they get in their mastering suite... However, I do applaud any music company bothering to release hirez audio these days, in the wake of the DVD-A / SACD fiasco. DVD-A should have been great (SACD was always flawed as a retail format IMO). What RR (and Linn, Naim and others) are doing is great. Not sure about $45 per recording... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB Touch Beta (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688
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