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In the Thread: The BSO and Digital Music.
Post Subject: The HDCD at 88.2/24? More about the BSO files.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/8/2009
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I do not think they encode it with HDCD, I do not think that it is even possible. Most likely there is something in those files in the files that mislead your DAC and force it to throw the HDCD indicator. Might be I am wrong but I do not think that they are HDCD.
When I got Pacific Microsonics I made a number of experiments with HDCD. It was working VERY nice with 16/44 out and into the Pacific but switching the Pacific to 88.2/24 killed any need to do anything. I even measured the signal at -95dB and I remember that at 88.2/24 even the Pacific’s own dithering injections were not necessary, though they were very effective at 16/44 and at -60dB.
I do not think that the truth will be known about the nature of those files. I think they are OK as they are with the Deutsches Requiem being the best among all (musically and technically). The Mahler is a bit too wicked and unfriendly with some strange imaging/stereo transformation/corruption but the last movement is the undeniable beauty that hard to discard. I use for a few month my own FM recording of the beginning of the M6’s last movement as my own home demon showstopper. The BSO was breathtaking in there – you might need the space elegancy of FM get it in full glory. The Daphnis et Chloé? I do not know I did like it more from tuner, even though the recordings from 88.2/24 BSO is unquestionably better quality. I did not listen the Bolcom files yet….
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