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McCartney & Harrison remasters in FLAC! |
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aaronk 
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 Posted: 19 October 2010 at 9:36pm |
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:D I certainly can't tell unless I'm listening on a good sound system and paying close attention, and even then, I'm sure I would fail the test on some of them. I think I might do better than 1 out of 100, though.
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KentT
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Posted: 25 October 2010 at 4:23pm |
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Original Master Quality is a good 15 IPS dub of the master on 1/2 track open reel. That is master quality. No digital extant short of 24/96 or DSD gets you even close!
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I turn up the good and turn down the bad!
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NightAire
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Posted: 25 October 2010 at 10:18pm |
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...and ANY analog copy is going to lose some fidelity, so even THAT wouldn't be master quality.
You lose high frequency response, your wow & flutter go up, and your noise floor jumps up, too. Stereo separation drops slightly as well. Distortion would increase. (30 ips on 2" tape would be better.) |
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Brian W.
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Posted: 25 October 2010 at 11:21pm |
As I said, I was referring to the digital master used to master CDs, not the original analog master. Furthermore, these McCartney/Harrison downloads ARE 24/96. Edited by Brian W. |
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KentT
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Posted: 26 October 2010 at 8:58am |
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These should be good as long as there is no obnoxious compression, boosted treble, or noise reduction misused. And 24/96 should be good.
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Brian W.
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Posted: 02 November 2010 at 7:12am |
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Bought the 24/96 hi-rez download of the "Band on the Run" album. You had your choice of downloading it with some limiting or no limiting at all, so I opted for the "unlimited" version. They're all waves in a zip file. Yikes! 4608 kbps! (A standard 16-bit .wav file is 1411 kbps.) The title track alone is 172 mb large. The whole 18-song album was 2.43 gigabytes. Took 3 hrs and 40 minutes to download. Not bad for $9.99. (Though I hear they've now raised the price to $19.99. I got the preorder price.)
The surprising thing was that Apple Lossless will actually retain the 24/96 sampling, so I actually could put this on my iPod if I wanted. Edited by Brian W. |
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The Hits Man
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Posted: 05 November 2010 at 9:49pm |
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The 24-bit/96k files are in the wav format. Along with the
pdf, and the 320kbps mp3 version, the whole thing is a 2.60GB zip file, and it took me 20 minutes to download. Edited by The Hits Man |
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