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Anyone own either of these DVD-A's?Robert Walter's 20th Congress "Money Shot"
Larry Goldings Trio "Moonbird"These are 2 of my favorite CD's and I was wondering if the DVD-A's are much of a (sonic) improvement? If I remember correctly both were originally digitally mastered at 24 bits. I guess Hi-Res converts them to 96 bit for the DVD-A? Is there a noticeable increase in detail after the conversion?
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If you like Robert Walter, be sure to check out Mofro's "Blackwater" album - it's fantastic. It's available on DVD-A, although I've only heard the redbook.
Paul,John is right, of course, the 24-bit 192KHz is considerably better than a CD. I have just started using discWelder BRONZE DVD-A burning software which arrived yesterday, to start transferring my old audiophile LP's to DVD-A. I had previously been burning to CD, but I was really unhappy with the results. Last nite, I burned my first DVD-A 24/192 with only three tracks I had transferred via the E-MU 1212m and I am really happy with what my 24/192 transfers sound like, versus my CD transfers.
FWIW.
Thanks for the input. I probably should have phrased my inital post a little differently. I believe that both of the recordings that I was referring to were originally mastered on digital media at 44.1 or 48.0. There are no analog masters for these. So, I was wondering how much of an improvement in the sound is there bewteen the (upsampled?) DVD-A and the CD version?
Pdl says:I believe that both of the recordings that I was referring to were originally mastered on digital media at 44.1 or 48.0. There are no analog masters for these. So, I was wondering how much of an improvement in the sound is there bewteen the (upsampled?) DVD-A and the CD version?> /strong>
Rubbish.
From Hi-Res Musics website:
"The analog tape is first played back on a calibrated tape machine electrically and physically identical to the deck used to make it in the first place. Impedance matched custom tube amplification, mastering equalizers and dynamics processors are employed during the mastering stage to ensure that all of the sound is transferred to the digital domain. "
They don't work from digital masters at all, it's straight analog masters.
In addition, although mentioned, every title that I've spoken to Dave Schwartz about hasn't used EQ or dynamics processing.
Hi John,I have indeed read the section of the Hi-Res WWW site where they claim to create their DVD-A's right from the original Analog Masters. However, also on the Hi-Res WWW site, regarding the Robert Walters and the Larry Goldings titles that I was asking about in my earlier post, it says the following:
"Robert Walters unique approach to Seventies funk/soul is an aural treat. This is one hard groovin' band. A Stereophile "Record of the Month" in March 2001. Remastered to 96kHz/24 bit from the original 44kHz/24 bit digital master."
B-3, guitar and drums. No need for a bass player when you've got pedals. Larry and his band, Peter Berstien on guitar, and Bill Stewart on drums, create solid grooves, including an outstanding rendition of the folk/rock classic "Woodstock". Remastered to 96kHz/24 bit from the original 48kHz/20 bit digital master.
Has anyone had a chance to compare the 44.1 CD's and the Hi-Res DVD-A's of these 2 titles? Are the (upsampled?) DVD-A's a noticeable improvement in resolution, detail etc.???Thanks,
Paul
Paul,Good question, but I don't know the answer, never having made a comparison, or listened to source material prepared the same way. Perhaps someone can chime in with an answer.
Hi-Res does 24/96K for DVD-Video, and 24/192K for DVD-Audio.I don't have these 2 specific recordings, but every other title from them that I have is of reference quality.
I think they are substantially better than the CDs.
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