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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where?

Post Subject: Fraud and borderline personalitiesPosted by steverino on: 5/24/2014

I could forgive Mr Rose his personality defects if he was producing soundfiles of some distinction rather than just doing 24/192 needledrops. The scary thing is that his patrons contend that these concoctions are the equal of using the mastertape. As in my posts above, I think there could be some digital conversion process developed that would be far more transparent and accurate than what we have now but the direction is all the other way. I think someone doing 24/192k of a mp3 file subjected to extra dynamic compression and run through a cassette deck is far more likely.

BTW thanks for linking that Ultrahigh end site. I never heard of Mr Berryman but he seems like the lone voice in the wilderness of the audio zines. I hope he is independently wealthy because he will be frozen out I assume. Maybe he already is since the equipment reviews are almost all links to other people's reviews. I can't imagine anyone sending him music CDs/vinyl to review either. This whole high sampling rate download business is really becoming not simply a fraud, but a blatant sneering fraud. Whatever one thinks of the Cheskys etc at least they all made some attempt, successful or not, to produce or promote better sounding remasterings in the past. At this point they have thrown all that aside and are defending the indefensible. Once this collapses, it is going to be very hard to pick up the pieces and move forward.

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