Bill50x wrote: > I've written to HD-Tracks about the compressed files they sell as "more > dynamic" and have so far got no answer. I mean, what's the point of > 24/192-files if the dynamics are like 5 dB lower (which often is the > case, not always however) than the original CD? Now, dynamics isn't > everything, the 24/192-files can be good in other respects but it is > dishonest to marketing the 24/192-files as "dynamically better" when > they in fact often are worse. A nice tool to look at the files is btw > the MasVis (http://www.lts.a.se/lts/manual) which is free to download > (http://www.lts.a.se/lts/masvis). The sad thing is that the program just > can handle 16/44 wav so the files you like to analyze has to be > converted. > > / B
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