adwiegert wrote: > Do tell? I'm knew to this side of audio, coming from a very large CD > and SACD collection and Ayre 5 series components. I'm way behind the > curve as to best places to buy HD music. > > In addition to HD Tracks, I've bookmarked Acoustic Sounds, Pro Studio > Masters, some German site... Highres audio I think? and Pono. Where's > the best place? > > and thank you!
The whole idea is bit dodgy , (btw do you know that most of your SACD are fake ( Google a bit about it ) they are not original DSD content mostly up sampled 16/44 ). We have miles on the topic on this forum and do follow the links in my signature for entertainment . So look at the old post everywhere ,not only this forum . In very short terms . Very few recordings breaks the "limits" of 16/44.1 at all especially not old analog recordings from the 70's that HD tracks resells at 24/192 ? In some cases they sell a new remaster which can be better , that good ! But it can also be worse , the best version of given record can sometimes be the 90's CD release ? So the format 24/192 or 16/44.1 for example has no strong connection to soundquality , the actual recording and the master used has the sound Quality or lack thereof ? But you can't sell that it's to complicated , besides the CD business has already destroyed the credibility of "remaster" you know they made it louder and sound more modern ... And there really is no support at all that humans need more than 16/44.1 aka CD , say I who has 100's of DVDA and expensive Meridian equipment . . The HD music proponents usually have an agenda to sell something or strong beliefs in the thing . some brands use mushy audiophile lingo to sell to you or like Meridian who use cherry picked bad science ( they used to to do good science ,but their strong belief in HD audio or the money got the better of them ). Ayre , have a belief in apodsing filters with very gently roll off in thier digital products and some other anachronisms regarding circuit designs some of thier designs may have a noticeable roll of in the highest treble . You may hear that if you are young and or female , you tend to have good high frequency hearing in that age and women usually hear slightly better that's ups the probability , but it's inaudible for most people . Well it's mostly marketing as usual , Byers beware , I also shop HD audio sometimes , usually because that's the option that exists beside MP3 :) but I try to be somewhat sceptical . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105620 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
