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In Reply to: Isn't 48/24 + watermark dualdisc worse than CD? posted by snaggs on November 10, 2004 at 00:02:30:
there's a fairly significant step up in quality (to my ears at least, on the equipment i own) going from 16-bit recordings to 24-bit, probably more than that gained by increasing the sample rate.i have been recording my LPs at 44.1/24, and i notice a step down in quality when i downconvert to 44.1/16 to burn a CD.
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Hi Chris;
Are you using dither when you truncate from 24 bit to 16 bit?
d.b.
there are various noise shaping algorithms and number of bits of dither to apply ...so far, the best sounding to my ears is Apogee's UV22 HR - i can barely distinguish the difference. but it aggressively noise shapes to the 20-22kHz region which may be a problem on some equipment.
I also agree with Christine here, and whilst I would prefer to have 24/96 Surround, 24/48 is vastly superior to CD.
The difference is clearly audible, as to my ears the increase in quality from 16 to 24 bit is greater than 48 - 96KHz sample rates.And I also use the UV22HR dither, unless I am running a surround mix that needs dither in which case I have been using the one built in to Nuendo. That one is very good indeed.
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plain vanilla UV22 is still very good, the differences from UV22HR are quite subtle. UV22HR also allows dithering to 20 and 24 bits.
Nuendo has both if you install the "old version" plugs for compatibility.
Can't use the UV22HR for multichannel as it is stereo only, so I have to use the Built in Surround Dither.But the differences between UV22 and UV22HR are subtle indeed. Apparently the algo is improved, but I honestly doubt I could pick which is which.
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have you tried rendering your surround mix 2 channels at a time, using UV22HR, as a final mastering step.you end up with 3 wav files, which you recombine to form your final surround master.
obviously you should only do that as your final step, when you are completely satisfied with your mix.
the remastering of the Beatles' catalog in 24-bit should be a step up in quality. All improvement welcome.Surely, we would like that catalog remastered in a hi-rez format (SA-CD & DVD-A), but since the masses care little for these formats (virtually ignored according to Denon), I'm not surprised at the choice. Just hope it sounds better.
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