Rolling Stone Hi-res releases, not news, but funny |
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Rolling Stone Hi-res releases, not news, but funny |
 Mar 23 2012, 15:00
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 ReplayGain developer Group: Developer Posts: 4589 Joined: 5-November 01 From: Yorkshire, UK Member No.: 409  |
Roll up, roll up, get your Rolling Stones 24-bit 88.2kHz downloads here...
https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=cat...D00018771886723 ...what? Quality not good enough for you sir? Pay an extra $10 for the 24-bit 176.4kHZ version here... https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=cat...X00018771886723 ...and hear those 1964 recordings in all their, er, glory. (Play the previews if you don't understand why this is so funny). Cheers, David. P.S. No flames please. I think some of the music is great, and this may well be the best digital release of it - but 176.4kHz for this?! |
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Mar 23 2012, 16:28
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 Winamp Developer Group: Developer Posts: 662 Joined: 17-July 05 From: Ashburn, VA Member No.: 23375 |
I demand a high enough sample rate to be able to hear the tape-bias signal!
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Mar 23 2012, 17:20
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Group: Members Posts: 3083 Joined: 1-September 05 From: SE Pennsylvania Member No.: 24233 |
That's an interestinmg point. Shouldn't you be able to detect the tape bias frequency in these files?
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Mar 23 2012, 17:41
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 Group: Super Moderator Posts: 9265 Joined: 1-April 04 Member No.: 13167 |
Well if it makes Neil Young's ears happy...
-------------------- Everything sounds the same until it is proven otherwise.
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Mar 23 2012, 17:44
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Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 10-November 10 Member No.: 85609 |
QUOTE (pdq @ Mar 23 2012, 17:20)  That's an interestinmg point. Shouldn't you be able to detect the tape bias frequency in these files? That may be what's happening at 28797Hz here: "Ruby Tuesday" 24/88.2 (from "Through The Past Darkly, Vol.2")  "Paint It Black" 24/88.2 (from "Through The Past Darkly, Vol.2")  Or maybe it's an artifact from the DSD transfer/conversion? |
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Mar 23 2012, 17:50
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Group: Super Moderator Posts: 9265 Joined: 1-April 04 Member No.: 13167 |
Nearly 110 db down at 20kHz. Those images really tell the tale. Thanks!
-------------------- Everything sounds the same until it is proven otherwise.
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Mar 23 2012, 17:51
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 Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 765 Joined: 12-March 05 From: Kiel, Germany Member No.: 20561 |
I didn't do so before, but now I added HDTracks to my personal axis of evil.
-------------------- Audiophiles live in constant fear of jitter.
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Mar 23 2012, 18:04
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Group: Members Posts: 410 Joined: 9-August 07 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 46048 |
I wouldn't have bought it if they hadn't used cryogenically frozen interconnects. Now that I know that they have, I'm sold!
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Mar 23 2012, 18:51
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 Group: Members Posts: 1471 Joined: 30-November 06 Member No.: 38207 |
QUOTE (greynol @ Mar 23 2012, 17:50) Nearly 110 db down at 20kHz. Nah, look at where the 0 dB is 
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Mar 23 2012, 19:12
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ReplayGain developer Group: Developer Posts: 4589 Joined: 5-November 01 From: Yorkshire, UK Member No.: 409 |
QUOTE (Kohlrabi @ Mar 23 2012, 16:51) I didn't do so before, but now I added HDTracks to my personal axis of evil. You'll love this page then...https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=sta...name=which_kind but if people use all this as an excuse to dig out the master tapes, and present an album sounding better than it ever has on CD (even though, of course, it could sound just as good on CD!) then it's nice that they have an excuse to do so, and it's nice to hear classic albums sounding better than ever. (and in any cases where this is the only release of the better master, I'll just have to downsample it to 44.1kHz and encode it to mp3 myself )Cheers, David. |
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Mar 23 2012, 19:21
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Group: Super Moderator Posts: 9265 Joined: 1-April 04 Member No.: 13167 |
QUOTE (Porcus @ Mar 23 2012, 10:51) Nah, look at where the 0 dB is Even still, ~70 dB down from peak says enough. EDIT: I had originally said something about the music being incapable of having a peak at 0dB, but that doesn't excuse my mistake. My thinking was more along the question as to whether it's possible to capture the high frequency garbage along with the music (the complete spectrum) using only 16 bits. This post has been edited by greynol: Mar 23 2012, 20:03 -------------------- Everything sounds the same until it is proven otherwise.
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Mar 23 2012, 22:36
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 Group: Members Posts: 3212 Joined: 29-October 08 From: USA, 48236 Member No.: 61311 |
QUOTE (pdq @ Mar 23 2012, 12:20) That's an interestinmg point. Shouldn't you be able to detect the tape bias frequency in these files? Hard to tell. Tape bias could be over 100 KHz. 50 Khz is more likely, but that's over the Nyquist for 88 amd 96 KHz sampling. |
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