I would appreciate your thoughts on the new EMI classical "SACDs" that are going for
between $25 and $50, depending on title.
I put SACD in quotes, because, as I correctly read last year, these are archived from the original
analog tape in 24/96 PCM, then "restored", then ultimately converted to DSD.
From the October Stereophile:
Abbey Road Engineer quoted verbatim:
"..We've chosen the PCM domain. We did it at 96Khz/24 bits, clearly because it is almost impossible
for us to remaster and our remastering process in the DSD format. We can only work in the PCM format.
So we produce a finished, remastered 96khz/24 bit file, and the that gets transferred into DSD format to
author the SACD. Some people will say that that's pointless, that's not true SACD. Well I'm not going to argue.
It's the way we do it, and we do it for valid reasons."
For the record, I think it IS pointless. Why not offer 96/24 downloads, or DVD's with the files, or hell, DVD-As?
between $25 and $50, depending on title.
I put SACD in quotes, because, as I correctly read last year, these are archived from the original
analog tape in 24/96 PCM, then "restored", then ultimately converted to DSD.
From the October Stereophile:
Abbey Road Engineer quoted verbatim:
"..We've chosen the PCM domain. We did it at 96Khz/24 bits, clearly because it is almost impossible
for us to remaster and our remastering process in the DSD format. We can only work in the PCM format.
So we produce a finished, remastered 96khz/24 bit file, and the that gets transferred into DSD format to
author the SACD. Some people will say that that's pointless, that's not true SACD. Well I'm not going to argue.
It's the way we do it, and we do it for valid reasons."
For the record, I think it IS pointless. Why not offer 96/24 downloads, or DVD's with the files, or hell, DVD-As?
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