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Default Apple to offer higher quality tracks


"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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Well, I guess it is a step in the right direction. But
it gets us back only to a point just short of "CD
Quality". Now how about a "super-premium" SACD or
DVD-A
multi-channel" release?

Yeah, SACD and DVD-A provide such impressive-looking
specifications. Just what Harry needs to enjoy music -
impressive specifications.


How about saying distortion and artifact free,


That would be any digital format.


So MP3 @ 128kbs is perfect?


uncompressed,


That's easy, just don't compress it!


Sorry, my error here, I meant to say "lossless". Being and
old timer I still associate "compression" with "lossy"
formats


analog sounding,


Sounding like any extant practical analog record/playback
technology would be a gigantic step backwards for digital.

Only at lower bitrates.

multichannel music


44/16 can do that.


Not on Red Book CD!


that is superior to CD?


How can you improve on something that is already sonically
transparent?


see above


PS Noted I gave you what you asked for and you have not
commented on my post Spectral Analyses 192/24 that
has
been up for over a month!


Your spectral analysis shows some odd, unnatural artefacts
20 KHz. The recording is horribly flawed, technically

speaking. The only thing that makes it listenable is the
fact that the artefacts are 20 KHz where they can't be
heard, anyway.

I never said it was a perfect recording only an example of a
readily available commercial recording that has a lot of
sound energy 25kHz.

IMHO it sounds very pleasant (except some vocals are too
closely miked) and down mixing it to 44.1/16 makes it sound
"harsh". BTW I haven't ABXed it as I cannot get your
program to work at 192/24 or, as I have previously said,
managed a DBT at the two different sample rates other than
crude source swapping.

Regards TT