Bruce, can you comment on sound quality with both the Pyramix and Sonoma set ups?
Biggest problem with SACD and to some extent DVD-A, was admonition from ripping them to a PC at a time, when that was all the rage. It is the mass market which helps support these formats and without that feature, they would not come along.
At the time, I actually went and bough all the "Audio DVDs" (not to be confused with DVD-A) because I could rip those. High-end audio guys should have stayed with that format, rather than switching to DVD-A and SACD.
Just found out "Antiphone Blues" is an upsampled SACD.. bummer
How about Cantate Domino? Is this also an upsampled SACD from the redbook master?
Lee
You're safe with this one Lee!
Cool. So this is a DSD encoding from the original analog master tapes?
Lee
Yes it is. We only tested one label. I think there were 2 or 3 labels that did this piece.
Proprius.
Lee
Damn, and I thought it sounded good.
I realize that this is probably a impossible request but here goes:
Bruce, having a list of the "rejected" and "verified" SACDs you've analyzed would be extremely beneficial for us, the consumers, to be able make well-informed purchasing decisions.
No, the problem is that labels record at 44.1 or 48k and then upsample to DSD for SACD. Then they give me the SACD to rip the DSD files off of them to give to HDtracks. If there is a brickwall filter at 22 or 24k, then HDtracks can not sell them as hi-rez files. People listen with their eyes (spectral analysis) and start bitchin'. I'd say, on the whole... we get 30-40% regection rate because labels repackaged lo-rez files and charged more money to dupe the consumer thinking you have hi-rez files.
Bruce quick question.Just curious if some of these labels do a similar trick to differentiate between their redbook and SACD, that are the same source.
Thanks
Orb
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