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April 19, 2011
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Actually, if you read the M&M paper, which I suspect few of you have, it did produce a positive result: at very high playback volumes, difference in noise floor between the DSD and downconverted versions could be authentically heard during very quiet passages. This is entirely expected and in keeping with known engineering and psychoacoustics. (Of ... more | |
April 19, 2011
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THIS. Vinylphiles/anti-Redbook snobs want to have it both ways -- they report again and again that 'hi rez' versions 'sound better' than CD and are happy to attribute that to the formats' SR/bitdepth specs -- and even praise the superiority of discs that have, upon investigation, turn out to have been mastered from Redbook bandwidth-limited ... more | |
October 24, 2007
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Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous. This has always been a top-flight recording and performance, and in digital multichannel, it soars even higher. I had no idea this Phillips recording had been recorded for quad. Is it too much to hope that some of Haitink/LSO Stravinsky recordings from the early 70's were also mixed to quad? ... more | |
July 14, 2004
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Actually the question is moot because a properly controlled comparison between the formats has never been published (or perhaps never even been *done*). Isn't that interesting? If SACD and DVD-A are as great a leap forward in sonics as advertised, then gathering some slam-dunk blind comparison results should be aa snap, as well as being great ... more |
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