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RE: Could you be so kind

"Have you ever listened to a 15ips reel to reel tape? I never have, so that's a real question"

I have. That 15 IPS tape was not transparent compared to the live microphone feed, which sounded better. But this was some years ago and it was 1/4 inch tape, so it could be that newer machines and tapes are more transparent.

When I buy downloads, my custom is to purchase the highest available resolution. My experience is that 192/24 versions often sound better than 96/24 versions. (There were a few cases where the 192/24 recordings were made from an analog mixdown of 96/24 session tapes, where the gain was minimal.) My experience has been that record labels offering the highest quality recordings offer their downloads at 192/24 as well as 96/24. This is a clue that their engineers are trying for the best possible quality and that they are marketing to audiophiles looking for the best possible reproduction.

Tony Lauck

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


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