DennyL;641210 Wrote: > This did set me wondering. The album I was interested in is available as > a regular classical CD (Mahler's 3rd symph conducted by Boulez on DG). > Would that performance have been recorded in HD as well as in regular > CD format, or has there been some 'upsampling' to derive 96/24 data > from a CD standard recording? > > IF DG recorded it in HD why is it so hard to buy it? If the HD is > derived from CD is it worth having? I'm not a hi-res expert, but my understanding is that most recordings are mastered at higher resolution than 16/44.1 (CD quality). They are then converted to 16/44.1 because that's what the CD standard is. And that's why it's harder to buy the hi-res stuff, because there's a much smaller market for it (it won't play on a CD player).
It's also possible that some purported hi-res tracks are really low-res material that has been upsampled. By most accounts, this is a complete rip-off, although there are some who contend that taking the same data and upsampling it sounds better. If you want to experiment a bit you can transcode tracks to different resolutions using SOX, and see if you hear a difference from upsampling CD-quality tracks or downsampling hi-res tracks to CD-quality. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=88756 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
