I was reading an article yesterday about the top 3 hi res downloads. They were listed as:
1. Carmen Gomes Inc., Thousand Shades of Blue( Sound Liaison)
[urlhttp://www.soundliaison.com/]Sound Liaison[/url]
2. Doug MacLeod, There's a Time (HD Tracks)
[url]http://www.hdtracks.com/{url}
3. Keith Jarret, Live at the Blue Note(ECM/HD Tracks)
by one guy. The other person in the conversation thought the best was
HDTracks 24/96 version of Fleetwood Mac Rumors
What is your thinking on the best Hi Res downloads? Where do you download yours?
I'm so old that I had to do some research on this topic before I could come and post. I still need the hear the answer to this post by someone "in the know" about it. I'm trying to move into the 21 century but it is slow going.
gstarey66 Messages: 12 Registered: January 2014 Location: Engineer
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Hello,
Hi Res is currently quite a bunch of worms. IMHO at least 95% of what is out there being called hi res is not. As the music can be no better than the quality it had the moment it was recorded. Taking a low res file and pushing it thru a hi res anything does not make the original recording any better at all.
HDTracks and a few others actually are trying to capture music at peak rates and quality. That and using the original master tapes (assuming they were decent quality to start with) and making better than average quality copies of them can yield better than average records.
But, beware, most or what is being passed as Hi Res just isn't. The salespeople's mouths are moving and they are looking for your wallet.
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