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SACD and download

Posted by diw on July 7, 2024 at 05:55:33:
I've definitely purchased more high res multichannel album files for download than SACDs over the last year. I wish there was a simple way to play them back though.Am missing the convenience of popping a disc into the player.

Last week, I just found out about another company, audite, that is making available high res multichannel downloads available on their website. Most were originally SACD releases, but there are clearly a few that are not. Wish there was an easy way on their website to search for those.

I plan on trying out a few of the Berlin Philharmonic downloads next. They too have albums with a variety of different resolutions, some stereo and some multichannel, but lately 96/24 MC fortunately.

These will supplement nativedsd, pentatone, chandos, and eclassical.com bis, which I have used for some time. Seattle symphony and San Francisco Symphony used to market multichannel downloads, but they seem to be exclusively streaming now, sadly. Wish there were more orchestras or companies that sold downloads.

Despite Chris' advocacy of Apple Atmos, I am going to continue to want to retain the data on my hard drive. Old School:) I am also curious about how engineers set up their microphones to derive Atmos recordings of an orchestra, but that is whole different conversation.