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In Reply to: RE: I probably should defer to downloaders with more experience, but. . . posted by tonyptony on June 2, 2012 at 16:22:15:
My method for figuring out what's really there on HD Tracks is not very good - it's intuition based! I figure with the items such as the Reference Recordings, they likely came from the data discs which Reference was selling for awhile, so there's a good chance they're legit. All my Reference downloads from HD Tracks have been fine. OTOH, I wonder with the Mercury downloads if they simply took the corresponding SACD and converted it to PCM for the download - and I'm not willing to chance paying for a download to find out. (And in any case, I have all the Mercury CD's and SACD's I wanted.) I've also downloaded a couple of the 24/96 Decca Legends (Ansermet Debussy and Katchen doing the Liszt Concertos, etc) - they also seem to be legit. OTOH, I just downloaded the new "24/96" Decca recital by pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, which didn't seem to have anything over 15KHz, but it still could be 24 bits, so it still might be legitimate, even though the highs don't extend that far up.
Overall, I've been mostly satisfied with HD Tracks, but as your original post implies, it's sometimes a bit of a crap shoot downloading from them.
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Follow Ups
- RE: I probably should defer to downloaders with more experience, but. . . - Chris from Lafayette 13:49:26 06/03/12 (1)
- Funny, just today I reread that TAS article with Chesky talking about HD Tracks - tonyptony 15:42:51 06/03/12 (0)
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