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Miles Davis "In a Silent Way" 88/24 and 176/24

Lots more.

 

I would love a hi-res copy of In a Silent Way. I hope they haven't tried to remove the tape hiss since that would pretty much kill it. If someone posts a good review I will grab this one.

Hope they do Big Fun as well.

 

Get the MFSL SACD. I've listened to both. SACD is better. My fave Miles.

 

I don't have a player and won't be getting one so I can't take that route.

 

This must be made from one of the SACDs. I already have two SACD versions, so I'll probably pass on this. Nah, I'll get it the next time they have a sale.

 

Right.

Uncharted territory, please.

 

It's probably the same mastering as the Sony SACD.

 

I wonder if Thriller is the same mastering as the SACD. That would be good.

 

Yes, it is. Both a running DR Number of 14. And that two versions sounds like twins...

 

I'm curious as to how this works when they release two different resolutions. Its confusing. Which one is the "real" one? Is the 88khz being upsampled to 176 or is the 176 being downsampled to 88 khz? Are they actually two seperate mastering from the original tapes?

 

Anyone?

 

This has already been discussed here:

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/hdtracks-has-a-major-announcement-coming-later-today.301553/

As far as the sample rate goes, the files were almost certainly converted from DSD, which works best with 24/176 or 24/88

https://www.hdtracks.com/files/DSD_to_LPCM.pdf

 

When the releases are in 88.2 or 176.4 kHz they are generally DSD/SACD sourced, so the "real" one is actually 1-bit/2.8224 MHz DSD, but HDTracks converts the stream to PCM (like you can do at home if you have a PS3). If they rip to 176.4 and then downsamples to 88.2 or make two separate rips is unimportant imo. Upsampling would of course make the 176.4 files pointless, so I very much doubt they'd do that.

Oops, too late... what Claude said.

 

Slave's first album "Slave" is available. 24/96 and 24/192. I opted for the 24/192 which sounds really good.

 

Lots of new downloads there. Rhino R&B, Kid Rock and more.

 

Joni Mitchell - "Ladies of the Canyon"
Hank Mobley
Thelonius Monk
Chicago 13
and many more

 

A lot of the Luaka Bop catalog is also available but in 16/44

 

I just got this week's email from HD Tracks, I just noticed that they are listing new hi res titles that are only 44.1k/ 24 bit. Isn't this medium res? I've always considered 96k (or 192k) 24 bit to be hi res, not 44.1k. Or are we gonna finish up like video, where we have 'hi res' (ie better than standard res but less than hi res) and 'true hi res' (ie it actually is hi res). I do buy stuff from HD Tracks and I'm pretty happy (except the Rolling Stones hi res which don't sound sound hi res at all) but this is not entirely accurate marketing from them IMHO.

 

For me, it's the 24 that makes it hi-res.

 

I'm not too happy with their offerings of late.

 

Anybody heard the Joni (Ladies of the Canyon) yet?

 

I forgot to get it and a few others yesterday when the sale was on. I'll wait until the next sale (hopefully a 20% one).

 

Is anyone else building a "to get" list for HDTracks? I have a long list of items I want. Both HiRes and not. See it below. What is yours?


Thelonius Monk - The Genius of Modern Music V1
Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Dexter Gordon - Go
Joe Lovano - Cross Culture
Chris Potter - The Sirens
Herbie Hancock - The Joni Letters
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Ben Harper - Get UP
Nosaj Thing - Home
Lee Ritenour - Rhythm Sessions
Ray Barretto - Eye of the Beholder
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
Warren Wolf - Warren Wolf
Brazil Classics 2: O Samba
Waldemar Bastos - Pretaluz
Charles Lloyd - Hagar's Song
Christian McBride - Conversations with Christian
***** ???
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Santana - Abraxas

 

There is a thread on it here.

 

Yep. Played it this morning. Love it.