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On Trey Anastasio, in the track Money, Love and Change, at around 1:39-1:57 and also 2:06-2:23 the sound suddenly becomes very muffled.Intentional (artistic), mastering fault, or watermarking in action?
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You must come to the realization that you cannot hear watermarking. If you believe you can, then it is obvious that you have been sucked in by the SACD mafia.
Was it Tony Faulkner?
Regards,
Metralla
Watermarking can be done at several different levels of strength, and it is *NOT* present even on all Warner titles.At its *strongest*, it can be audible in transients (an mp3-like psychoacoustic ringing) and as a 'sharpening' of the sound, a sort of 'lifting an separation' of the high end.
I can provide A/B's for anyone who'd like to send me some PCM for me to Verance watermark for them.
It is audible, (not only to golden ears) - but mostly on the *highest* strength setting.
I agree that many people may not hear it at all, I think I do simply because I've worked with it.
Eagles - Hotel California
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Doors - Rider on the StormI thought the slight sharpening of transients was because of the cheaper Pioneer DVD player's build-quality.
I recently got the first pressing Nightfly LP. I wanted the DVD-A for comparison, almost got it, but then I saw that the stereo track was re-mastered at only 48kHz. Is it still worth getting?
Jerome,The original recording was via the Soundstream process, which is 16-bit/50kHz.
What sampling rate would you rather they sampled to? 48kHz was the closest match.
I would have like them to upsample the stereo track to 192kHz. Or is that not the best option for sound quality reasons?BTW, are these titles watermarked?
Eagles - Hotel California
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
The Doors - Rider on the Storm
There's little point to upsampling to 192k other than purely marketing .As far as knowing with absolute certainty which title is or isn't watermarked, I cannot say.
WB says they watermark every title in some fashion, but I have yet to hear it on my system.
Michi mentioned a while back that she could not detect any watermark on this Eagles title.
And I don't know if I should even post that. heh.
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The multichannel track on this one is extracted from the stereomix by a software algorithm. So that could be another cause for this.It's not likely that it's the result of watermarking in action.
If that's the case you would have heard a similar effect on other warner titles too.My guess it's intended or a mastering error.
This title just isn't a showcase for the format.
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If is is also detected on the DD5.1, DD2.0 soundtracks, most likely that is is not watermark problem?
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