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RE: " Good ones can not be transferred to 44/16 digital without loss of quality. "

CD format can be perfectly musical. However, it will seldom be transparent, namely the same recording made in a higher resolution format by the same people with the same care is going to sound better. If the conversion to 44/16 is done well the differences are going to concern the realism of the reproduction. The music generally comes through OK. To me, it's musical if you can tell that the musicians were grooving and if noise, distortion and other artifacts aren't annoying.

Given that almost all new recordings are made in high resolution and converted down to CD format, there are no extra production costs in offering downloads at high resolution. There are extra server costs for storage and bandwidth. Delivering a high resolution download at 176/24 uses about six times more internet bandwidth than 44/16, representing about $0.25 vs $0.04 in server bandwidth charges at today's rates. These costs are less than credit card processing costs.

There is little reason for absurdly high prices for high-res new releases. Some of the better download sites are introducing their new releases at the same price for all formats because of these economics. There is justification for higher prices for new high resolution digital remasters of older analog recordings, because doing a high quality remaster takes expensive equipment and engineering talent.




Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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