Recent content by mep

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Dizzie, what is your winter amp?

Unless Dizzie has an electric company that charges crazy prices, it seems it would be cheaper to turn the air conditioner thermostat down to make up for the heat load of his current amp than to buy a "summer amp."

Call Klipsch and ask them.

Yeah. Your listening to a version that's not what it's purported to be. It's not a native 24/96 file. You are listening to a file that used to be a 24/192 file and now you want to argue about whether it's better to upsample or downsample.

I don't have any SACDs of Tumbleweed Connection so I have no idea how it sounds. Qobuz has two versions and both are 16/44.1. One is the regular album and the other is the "Deluxe" version. Neither version held my attention, but part of that is I'm not a big Elton John fan.

Congrats on buying a pair of speakers you love!.

Nope. If they claim an album was recorded at a certain bit depth and sampling rate and it was upsampled or downsampled from the native bit depth and sampling rate, than we aren't being told the truth. That's why I call it digital hocus pocus.

That's still digital hocus pocus.

Nope. I doubted the record labels allowed their master tapes to be used to cut digital files for every different hi-rez bit depth and sampling frequency available.

I can only tell you about some albums that purport to be hi-rez and don't sound as good as the 16/44.1 versions. I can't prove or disprove they really aren't hi-rez because I don't have the software that verifies their true provenance, nor do I care about downloading it. I listen to what I...

Do you want some hi-rez files that I find are lacking or do you want some outstanding sounding 16/44.1 titles?

Most all the jazz music I listen to was originally recorded on 2 track tape with tube tape decks and tube consoles. When CDs first entered the market, the record labels saw they had a new cash cow to resell their catalog of recordings from musicians they controlled. All of their original...

Are you talking streaming files or files on your hard drive?