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In the Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0
Post Subject: A misdelegated rage?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/6/2014
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 mark wrote:
…also have heard many demos of sacd and hi res,most recently through a berkeley dac,24/192 i think, a download of music i knew,it washorrendously artificial.I am sure there are good sounding hi res setups in terms of detail soundstage etc.BUT what about the basicsof natural realistic  acoustic sound without artifice? Who can listen to that hi res/multi fomat crap for more than 2 seconds,i dont care how much hi-res or detail or imaging/soundstage
Mark, this is slightly misdelegated rage in my view. It is not because I disagree with your that most of today hi-res sound is in fact crap. The problem is not with the hi-res as a concept but rather with HOW that hi-res was cooked. The hi-res music does sound artificially but it is not necessarily have to be this way. It is not about format but the people who use the format and most of them in industry are unfortunately Morons. If the very same people used 16/44 properly then even this, inferior format, can produce a phenomenal quality, if used properly.
 
For sure hi-res offers a LOT of additional opportunities. Unfortunately it is not being used as the Morons kill recordings by many other means that not necessary relate to the format itself. As I multiple times said as this site: it is very easy for any person to make own judgment. Take any good 16/44 A/D and D/A, connect them in series, make a recording and play a file. Do not touch the file in any form and shape that would do any DSP on the file. The quality that you get will be orders of magnitude better than any CD that you have, beater most of the LPs and faked hi-res file that you will come across. The quality that you would hear would be how we have to have 16/44 years back.

Rgs, the Cat

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