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But the original SONY/Columbia SACD looks like a CD upconversion!




Can anyone post the spectrum for this new HDTracks Time Out?

Check out the spectrum analysis below of the original Sony release SACD from around 2000. Notice the aggressive lowpass filtering at ~22kHz. That ain't a direct analogue -> DSD conversion. It's good ol' CD to SACD a la Norah Jones "Come Away With Me".

Unless HDTracks got some new mix of Take Five from Sony, I suspect at best we're just getting some variant of this or at worse, some weird hybrid where they do something to mask that spectrum anomaly. (Sorry to be cynical, but too many times HDTracks have shown they're not consistent in quality and when I see anomalies like this, I suspect they're doing something to hide the truth. In this instance I'm wondering if they're running it through some kind of surround process to separate the sides [hence the erroneous sounding extreme sides missing the center audio] and then remixing it down. I might of course be wrong.)

Edit: I just realized there was an Analogue Productions Time Out released last year with multichannel mix. I wonder what that one sounds and looks like.
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