Аппараты с HDCD ...

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Не надо человека гнать ... я, к примеру, DTS CD слушаю ...  

По hdcd cм. http://www.av-club.ru/index.php?id=98. Только статья старая.

Я просто решил запосостить "восторги" Чака Эйнлея (бесменного звукорежиссера Нопфлера с 1989 года, и кстати когда-то -  Dixi Chicks) без своих комментариев. Но 1 предложение я специально выделил в отдельный абзац, просто соотнесите это со своим последним постом:

"Recently I was doing a solo album with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. Before I left for London to see Mark, Denny Purcell (President of Georgetown Masters) told me about HDCD and its promise. Since Mark's records are known for their sonic clarity I thought he might be interested. So when I got back to the States Denny set up my first test-drive of the HDCD system. We ran a blindfold test listening to every A/D converter that Denny had, and he's got a bunch of them. I picked the 20-bit converter that sounded the best to me. We converted Mark's tracks on that and did the same with the HDCD Processor. Pacific Microsonics just blew the other converters away. When we listened to undecoded HDCD brought down to 16-bits

I was astounded at how much better it was. Then, when I heard it decoded against the 20-bit converter, it was just amazing to me. Wow, I said, that's literally what my master was. I mean it had the same width of imaging, the same depth perception, and the same frequency response. I'm serious. I was hard-pressed to tell any difference. I've been doing digital recording for ages. In fact, I did the first digital recording in Nashville-an entire digital album that was recorded digital multitrack, digitally mixed, then released as a CD. I've always said one thing about digital sound: intellectually, it's all there. I mean, sonically the highs are there, the bottom is there, there's no wow and flutter or speed variation. But even though intellectually it was all there, I was, and still am, missing something. In fact, ever since CDs were brought out on the market, I've lost a bit of interest in listening at home, personally. And that's what hit me when I was sitting there comparing the HDCD against the analog master.

I said, 'There it is! There's that same emotional response that I get from analog tape, the original deal.' What Pacific Microsonics is doing is the right step forward. The original CD standard was too low: 16-bits and a sampling rate of 44.1kHz. HDCD samples at over 100kHz with 20-bit resolution. With decoded HDCD you actually get the kind of resolution that takes you much
closer to the analog domain. With HDCD, you get back what digital generally loses-the reverb, the imaging, and the depth, that you used to get with vinyl.

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Even with a nondecoded cassette copy in the car, I could hear a dramatic difference.
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There's something that's just really open and clear. As an engineer, I've always liked to use analog EQ and compression while mastering from digital masters. But to do so, I have to go back through another digital generation to master. A/D D/A generations start building up and the problems with digital become more and more apparent. But with the HDCD box, what you end up with is the resolution you had in the analog domain. You get back exactly what you were feeding in. Basically, you get more out of HDCD because more goes into it. Which also makes HDCD great for archiving purposes. You can start out with masters that are 20- or 24-bit. That's much better. Right now, the problem with using 20-bits is that in converting it to 16-bit you have to go through another box like SBM or UV-22. And I don't really like the sound that results when you bring it back to 16-bit. The nice thing about the Pacific Microsonics Processor is that this function is built in. It puts 20-bits back into 16-bits encoded-without leaving any artifacts like the other boxes do. The analog side of it is just as important as the digital. And, Pacific Microsonics has done that right as well. HDCD sounds really good." -Chuck Ainlay

да нет уважаемый McGregor вы то как раз правду и написали

Я же специально выделил:

"Even with a nondecoded cassette copy in the car, I could hear a dramatic difference"

- вот маленькая фраза, по которой можно судить о том, что тов. Звукорежиссер лукавил, проталкивая этот формат в 96 году....  Всё что связано с эим форматом - "ложь на лжи...."