{"id":742,"date":"2008-07-22T14:39:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/742-hi-res-audio-files-that-are-no-better-than-cd.html"},"modified":"2008-07-22T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T13:39:04","slug":"hi-res-audio-files-that-are-no-better-than-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/742-hi-res-audio-files-that-are-no-better-than-cd.html","title":{"rendered":"Hi res audio files that are no better than CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with a CD, when done right. Still, if you pay extra for something like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linnrecords.com\/linn-help-downloads-studio-master-quality-album-downloads.aspx\">Linn Studio Master<\/a>, at 96kHz \/ 24 bit resolution, you expect something which has better-than-CD audio quality (44.1kHz \/ 16 bit), even though some experts argue that you cannot hear the difference.<\/p>\n<p>One audio enthusiast opened his Studio Master download in a sound editor and <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.slimdevices.com\/showthread.php?t=49412\">couldn\u2019t make sense of what he saw<\/a>. The conclusion, after some discussion: most likely the signal passed through digital conversion at 44.1KHz at some point in the recording process, making true 96kHz \/ 24 bit resolution impossible.<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to know how many SACD or DVD Audio releases suffer from similar limitations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0ea20b44-9b7a-4711-95f0-868d3d38916c\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/sacd\" rel=\"tag\">sacd<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/dvda\" rel=\"tag\">dvda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/linn+studio+masters\" rel=\"tag\">linn studio masters<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with a CD, when done right. Still, if you pay extra for something like a Linn Studio Master, at 96kHz \/ 24 bit resolution, you expect something which has better-than-CD audio quality (44.1kHz \/ 16 bit), even though some experts argue that you cannot hear the difference. One audio enthusiast &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/742-hi-res-audio-files-that-are-no-better-than-cd.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hi res audio files that are no better than CD<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}