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RE: HDtracks 24/96 download vs same ripped from remastered CD....

There is musical signal on some of my classical recordings above 50 kHz. On recordings derived from magnetic tape usually there is not much above 25 kHz.

Even when there is no musical information above the noise floor above 20 kHz there is still a difference with higher sampling rates. The problem with the lower sampling rates is not so much the missing frequencies, it's the effect of the filters needed for sample rate conversion and/or the artifacts created when these filters are omitted or compromised. I would not say these effects are game changing. They are subtle. I have transferred and remastered dozens of cassette tapes and even here there is often a noticeable downgrade in sound quality when an 88/24 "studio master" is down sampled to 44/16 for release on CD.



Tony Lauck

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


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