It is a gamble! Many new masters even sold as so called "Studio Masters" sound worse as their early cd version. Unfortunately you can't believe to much in some listeners posting on forums talking about the quality they get horny by some pointless DR numbers (to some degree) and bitrate. Worst is this DSD crap imho, no one really needs this. CA comes me to mind here. I am a bit cured from getting High Bitrate stuff. My last purchases were only disappointments. For example i got myself "Amigos" from Santana as 2014 Studio Master at qobuz and this one sounds like a copy of a copy but with full frequency spectrum, lol. My old cd sounds much better. So until you don't read several good things about a new master written in a way that make a comparison to the old version possible just stay with the old cd.
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