HDTracks News

Here are the links to the 192k and 96k versions of Relayer and Yesshows:

https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HX603497921904
https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HX603497921904

https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HX603497922918
https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD603497922918

(for each album the two URLs I copied from the browser are identical, yet these are different pages. I have no idea how this works)

If you can't access these pages, maybe it's an IP address block in action, as has been the case with other albums.

 

The correct link to the 96 kHz is actually https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD603497921904

(They're differentiated by "HX" and "HD".)

 

I got an email from them - it's because I live in the UK, apparently.

Dammit.

 

Some analysis of Sound Chaser, Rhino vs HD Tracks.
http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f...ds/yes-relayer-%95-hdtracks-16166/#post228243

 

I know it's because of distribution rights or whatever but this is the biggest nonsense of all. Someone from Britain cannot access/ buy the (high rez) album of a British group...

 

How about Qobuz? Is that download available to UK residents? If yes, the "Ce produit est autorisé à la vente dans votre pays." message is displayed before the Copyright info at the end of the listing.

http://www.qobuz.com/album/going-fo...dio-masters-24-bits-192-khz-yes/0603497924547

 

Picked up both Eliminator and Tejas......both sound terrific. I had Eliminator on LP ages ago, but I cannot recall how it sounded. Tejas...well anything is going to be better than the 6 pack version.

 

Anybody tested Herbie Hancock's Sound-System 96/24? If it sounds as good as the Future Shock SACD I might be tempted, especially with 10% reduction.

 

On the Rush front, I just listened to Fly By Night and Caress of Steel and was quite impressed. Had "Necromancer" and "The Fountain" especially cranked and didn't experience LOUDness fatigue. "In the End" sounded fantastic--very nuanced during the quiet Alex moments, then big soundstage when Alex kicks up with the power chords. This song really let's you know that 24 bits are in play.

2112 on deck!

 

Those are the two Rush albums that impressed me the most in that format - in particular Alex Lifesons guitar and the overall soundstage.

 

HDT just split the Rush Studio Albums '89-'07 so you can get them individually. Just picked up Presto.

 

I'm new to HDT as I picked up my first few downloads last week. I'm very surprised we can't review, or at least rate these. Seems like that would be very helpful. A glaring omission? I would think HDT would want customers to share their thoughts, especially if they were confident in their quality.

 

IMHO it's better to have independent review sites, like this forum.

The reviews on small sites, such as Acoustic Sounds, are rarely helpful, since these are usually fanboy opinions. For a really significant overview of opinions, you need a site like Amazon with thousands of users and many potential reviewers.

My main wish of improvement would be that HDtracks starts using 21th century software for their website.

 

Does anyone know how long a typical HD Tracks license is for? Have any of the titles they sold when they first began become unavailable?

 

Well it looks like we got Got To Be There and Purple Rain available, among other things I dont really recognize, a couple more Yes albums.

 

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Well this expires tomorrow. It's a general 10% off anything in the catalog. Will there be another? Probably, but who knows when.

I'm still on the fence with Purple Rain, Blue and even Got To Be There. I did get Donna Summer's - I Remember Yesterday since last posting here.

Btw, interesting that you can't add items to your cart, but you can apply the code to multiple orders.

 

I bought the 96kHz Dreamboat Annie, Tea for the Tillerman, and Grant Green's Street of Dreams this weekend. Even my old ears like how they sound. I bought Ram a few weeks ago, I like that too.

 

It would be cool if they offered those Beatles 2009 24/44.1 remasters on there (that came on the apple USB).

I was looking around on there today to see if there was anything I was interested in, but I didn't get anything. Last week I got the 24/96 Van Halen and 24/88.2 Let It Bleed.

Anyone have any other suggestions based on those two? I own most of the Rolling Stones stuff on CD and a few of the early Van Halen albums on CD.

 

I always hold out for 20% off.....I feel HDTracks downloads are over priced by at least that margin anyway.

 

I contacted HDtracks. They told me some titles can be copied to DVD and some couldn't because the record company encodes the disc.

HDtracks seems like a pretty good company, but they don't know what the source is or whether the source is encoded. For me, that is a deal breaker, right now. I am not prepared to buy a DAC for computer at this time. It would be nice to be able to play the downloads on other systems without dragging the computer and DAC from room to room.

 

I thought HDTracks was DRM free? Besides, FLAC doesn't support DRM anyway so if you bought them in that format, they should not have any kind of copy protections in the files.

 

That doesn't make sense. What did you ask them exactly?

 

I asked them if I could copy the downloads to DVD. They said that some of the titles I could burn but others were encoded to prevent copying.

I take it you guys have been burning these?? How about the yes titles?

 

I was disappointed by Blue. See my post in the below thread.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/joni-mitchell-blue-hd-tracks-download.318806/

As a point of comparison, I also downloaded Ladies of the Canyon, and am satisfied with that (although not blown away).

 

Thanks John.