I spent some (too much!) time downloading the Bach tracks from lessloss, and was surprised on several fronts: - The 2496 audio was in .wav format. What?? Who in the right mind does not offer hi-res audio in an uncompressed lossless format like flac? - The loudness level for the tracks is extremely high. A lot louder than the HDTracks hi-res album, for example. Certainly not 'quiet'. - The recording was clean, but frankly sounded quite dead. Clean, clear but with much less acoustic than I expect from a good recording.
Finally I did not enjoy the performance, but that's subjective. I gave up after two tracks. The 8 tracks will be making space for other music. I can't imagine that a company pushing audiophile products (sic) can talk up such a recording. In contrast, recordings by Linn, Naim and Musical Fidelity (with Antony Michaelson himself on clarinet) reflect the musicianship and regard of recorded sound of people behind those brands. -- mervin_b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mervin_b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42376 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84091 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
