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FunkyMonkey said:
Thanks to everyone who has replied.
Let me add that anything on the late, lamented label "Surrounded By" is highly recommended.
Kal
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Kal Rubinson said:
Let me add that anything on the late, lamented label "Surrounded By" is highly recommended.
Kal
I ditto that....great label...superb example of DVD-A at its finest. Again, Kal, thanx for the heads-up on the Parasound P7 pre-amp. Just ordered another for my summer place. Since most units decode DTS, DD, Dolby True HD and DTS Master audio internally the 2 banks of 7.1 analogue outputs is indispensable. And if you want to laugh, I bought the unit [open box] from Audio Advisor for less than $1500 which is LESS than I paid ten years ago for an upgrade to my Theta Casablanca (the dacs were upgraded), which it will be replacing. This is surely ergonomically and sound-wise a stellar pre-amp for PURE DSD with the exception that you cannot (if you wish) extract surround from stereo SACDs but it is so smooth and attractive that it has to be one of the finest bargains in pre-amps today. Ditto for the OPPO blu-ray which can deliver to this pre-amp, via analogue outputs, all the hi-def codecs including SACD (stereo/m/c) DVD-A [stereo/m/c] dolby True HD, DTS Master Audio and HDCD (which is NOT hi-def but it's nice to know that it is there).
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Post by hookeve July 2, 2009 (13 of 51)
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rammiepie said:
... HDCD (which is NOT hi-def but it's nice to know that it is there).
Well, I think that HDCD IS HI-DEF AFTER DECODIFICATION PROCESS. There are some HDCD 20 bits/44.1KHz (I accept like "mid-def") and others with 24/44.1 bits very closer to genuine hi-def.
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HDCD, imho, is inconsequential both in its audible improvements on RedBook and in its market penetration. After the first couple of Reference Recordings, which were/are nice, it quickly became invisible.
Kal
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Post by hok007 July 2, 2009 (15 of 51)
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hookeve said:
- Holst: The Planets.
Which one? I count four (Levi, Lloyd-Jones, Susskind and Previn), and there may be more.
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Post by tream July 2, 2009 (17 of 51)
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Kal Rubinson said:
HDCD, imho, is inconsequential both in its audible improvements on RedBook and in its market penetration. After the first couple of Reference Recordings, which were/are nice, it quickly became invisible.
Kal
Kal, I had heard that there were something some 10000 HDCD releases - there were quite a few which were never really well publicized, especially in the pop arena. For example, my ex was a Jewel fan, and I bought her the second Jewel release, which turned out to be HDCD encoded. I probably have more than an handful of HDCD releases, and according to my unscientific sampling believed there was a marginal improvement on RBCD - I had a CAL-20 CD player that had the HDCD circuits. My ideal digital player would, in fact, support HDCD.
For me, SACD represented a huge leap over RBCD, especially in multichannel - but I would like to take advantage of HDCD when it is there.
Note - I don't have any facts or URL's to support my claim, so the 10000 could be completely BS- it is truly something "I heard".
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tream said:
Kal, I had heard that there were something some 10000 HDCD releases - there were quite a few which were never really well publicized, especially in the pop arena. For example, my ex was a Jewel fan, and I bought her the second Jewel release, which turned out to be HDCD encoded. I probably have more than an handful of HDCD releases, and according to my unscientific sampling believed there was a marginal improvement on RBCD - I had a CAL-20 CD player that had the HDCD circuits. My ideal digital player would, in fact, support HDCD.
For me, SACD represented a huge leap over RBCD, especially in multichannel - but I would like to take advantage of HDCD when it is there.
Note - I don't have any facts or URL's to support my claim, so the 10000 could be completely BS- it is truly something "I heard".
I am not saying that it was not some improvement but the lack of indications on commercial releases assured invisibility. I probably have more HDCDs than I know of but it is not an issue.
BTW, I, too, had and enjoyed the CAL-20 at the time.
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hookeve said:
Well, I think that HDCD IS HI-DEF AFTER DECODIFICATION PROCESS. There are some HDCD 20 bits/44.1KHz (I accept like "mid-def") and others with 24/44.1 bits very closer to genuine hi-def.
Even an HDCD which might've been mastered from 20 or 24 bit remains 16 bit/44.1 because that is the resolution of a RBCD.
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rammiepie said:
Even an HDCD which might've been mastered from 20 or 24 bit remains 16 bit/44.1 because that is the resolution of a RBCD.
HDCD actually uses 4 additional bits, but the format's sampling rate is only 44,1kHz
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