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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: The BSO and Digital Music.

Post Subject: Let's watch our hypocrisyPosted by manisandher on: 4/22/2009

Romy the Cat wrote:
Now how much better would be if people abandon that idiotic SACD/DSD and Mark Donahue would record BSO right in PCM at 88.2 kHz/24bit or 172.2 kHz/24bit format? Then the files that we get will be as close to raw master files as it might be.

I think most people who frequent this site would totally agree with you here.

However, let's just remember that these files do actually sound very good:

"tonally the files are very fine"
"They have no compression, dynamic like hell, colorful and very good balanced."
"what they do is the VERY right direction to go."
"Absolutely wonderful files"
"The files blew my FM files out water"
"Macondo can’t handle dynamic of the BSO Ordinal files."

Also, maybe converting from SACD to PCM via analogue isn't that crazy after all:

"... any 'edited' file, a file with bit-rate change, a sampling rate change, a format change are not the representative of what digital is all bout but rather the evidence how much possible to screw up digital without recognizing it."
"I have seen people who refuse to do 88kHz to 44kHz conversion but instead they D/A 88kHz files and then A/D the feed to 44kHz as they feel that it has less damage to Sound then DSP 88kHz to 44kHz."

Mani.

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