HDaudioplus "Audiophile MP3 for the 21st Century" site, Gave me a good laugh Options

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I ran across this comment on an article on Neil Young's Pono thing:

I'd like to introduce another alternative to "HDTracks" and "Pono"- HDAudioPlus 320.48KHz "audiophile mp3".

Nearly 20 years in development and created especially for Classical music, HDAudioPlus delivers all of the the audio quality of hi-rez - and more - minus the bulk. By packing our "not-mp3" codec into the mp3 envelope, we can keep file size to a bare minimum.

But here's the best part:

HDAudioPlus doesn't require ANY special player, device, or software WHATSOEVER.

It was designed to PLAY ON ANY DEVICE on ANY PLATFORM - Windows PC AND Apple!

Too good to be true?

Hearing is believing: Check out our stunning MTV-style Demo Gallery on Vimeo

http://vimeo.com/channels/nobodydoesitbetter

Likewise, please visit our commercial R+D website for documentation and "before and after" evaluation files remastered in HDAudioPlus (available for download) in all genres:

http://hdaudioplus.com

Last but not least, chill out and tune in to our Baroque Classical radio station broadcast in breathtaking 320.48KHz Baroque 24/7 http://baroque247.com.

Paula Wertheim
Executive Director-HDAudioPlus, Israel

This is so pitiful that I almost feel bad for singling her out, but apparently she's trying to sell a product so I think that qualifies it as fair game. Never mind the typos and bad grammar and the mind-boggling claim of "FACT: Music that sounds better, sells better." Just listen to the comparison MP3s on the site. I'll hide this next bit in case you don't want the surprise of the sound spoiled.

It sounds like she ran it through some terrible "enhancement" of the caliber that comes with something like Windows Media Player that boosts the bass and treble while dynamic range compressing quite heavily, and resamples to 48kHz (because that's obviously going to improve on that CD source). And somehow she's deluded herself into thinking this sounds better and is worth money. Just listen to it on the fade at the end of the samples! It doesn't take an audiophile to tell that's bad.

I doubt anyone on this forum would have any experience with a processor of that level, but does anyone have any idea what exactly was done here? Maybe it's even good software that's been abused.

[ktf]

The website it claims to be a subsidiary of (http://baroque247.com/) is even more ridiculous in some respect. It says

Brilliant 48-bit HD+ audio streaming

Whatever that's supposed to mean... Really, labeling yourself as 'world-leading' and having a website like this... Indeed, this has to be a joke

This post has been edited by ktf: Dec 23 2012, 15:34

[Woodinville]

The website it claims to be a subsidiary of (http://baroque247.com/) is even more ridiculous in some respect. It says

Brilliant 48-bit HD+ audio streaming

Whatever that's supposed to mean... Really, labeling yourself as 'world-leading' and having a website like this... Indeed, this has to be a joke

48 bits.

48 bits

Now let me think.

48*6.02=288.96.

Put the noise floor at atmospheric.

That means ... 295dB SPL.

Of course, that's a meaningless measurement, but let's think more.

295-194=101dB.

That's, um, 112 atmospheres, give or take.

Are we talking core of the earth? Jupiter? Inside the sun? What? Not quite high enough for neutronium.

[Neuron]

The website it claims to be a subsidiary of (http://baroque247.com/) is even more ridiculous in some respect. It says

Brilliant 48-bit HD+ audio streaming

Whatever that's supposed to mean... Really, labeling yourself as 'world-leading' and having a website like this... Indeed, this has to be a joke

48 bits.

48 bits

Now let me think.

48*6.02=288.96.

Put the noise floor at atmospheric.

That means ... 295dB SPL.

Of course, that's a meaningless measurement, but let's think more.

295-194=101dB.

That's, um, 112 atmospheres, give or take.

Are we talking core of the earth? Jupiter? Inside the sun? What? Not quite high enough for neutronium.

Actually it is only a bit higher than the pressure on the surface of Venus (~92 atmospheres) or the pressure 1 km under the ocean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_mag..._%28pressure%29 . Or the pressure generated in an average bomb explosion. And according to Wikipedia, 130 dB aka the threshold of pain is 0.000986923267 atmospheres for sound waves.

This 48-bit stuff is so hi-fi it can reproduce giant explosions without any noise .