Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012)
by leephillips on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @07:04AM
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"some classical labels are now giving loudness-wars treatment"
That's depressing.
That's depressing.
> Most music producers use samples...
Most people interested in better-quality sound in this particular context aren't listening to contemporary electronic music with samples. 24/192 or SACD is so desirable for reissues of older recordings in pop or jazz genres where those formats were mastered with higher dynamic range, while the available CD versions or lower-bitrate downloads were mastered with loudness-wars compression. The format is also attractive to classical music listeners, because SACD gives you multichannel audio; and some classical labels are now giving loudness-wars treatment to the non-SACD or non-24/192 formats of a particular new release.