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As far as your first sentence, this has never been in doubt. The real point of contention is whether or not, and/or how often, that...

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Ripped my entire CD collection more than 15 years ago. Then started buying hi rez downloads, eventualy went the Roon/HQP. Today I only...

That's still digital hocus pocus.

Also remember that even with a new hi-res transfer, the eventual release may sound bad due to too much compression and/or unpleasant EQ...

You may doubt, but all the evidence indicates that nearly always there is a new transfer made for a hi-res release; usually only once at...

As far as your first sentence, this has never been in doubt. The real point of contention is whether or not, and/or how often, that...

https://gy8.eu/blog/munich-high-end-2025-places/

I have a pair of the 1528 bookshelfs and I am stunned at how good they are. All the reviewers on YouTube are spot on. The speaker is...

I’ve personally witnessed a mastering engineer taking 16/44 files and upsampling them to 24/96, 24/192 for download sites. Tape to...

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...

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...

OK, can you list some of those? And FWIW, you did make the statement that you doubted that the record labels made new transfers for...

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...

Technical: Use the 4 ohm tap , there will be less distortion from mismatch vs the 8 ohm tap ..! Subjective : The 8 ohm tap high...