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Post by creimes on Feb 22, 2013 14:53:39 GMT -5
As the title explains..... thought I would ask some of you knowledgeable folk about HDCD format, I only have one album that I know of in this format which is Neil Young - Mirrorball, is it just a different bitrate or what and can you actually notice an improvement in it or just a gimmick. I now have the ERC-1 which plays this format so thought I would ask my fellow loungers.
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Chad
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Post by DYohn on Feb 22, 2013 14:57:23 GMT -5
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Post by paradigmE on Feb 22, 2013 15:03:15 GMT -5
Per that wiki I see there is a foobar HDCD plugin...well then!!
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Post by creimes on Feb 22, 2013 15:03:37 GMT -5
Do you own any and if so ever really noticed a difference...?
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Post by DYohn on Feb 22, 2013 15:08:20 GMT -5
Do you own any and if so ever really noticed a difference...? Yes, and no.  |
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Post by paradigmE on Feb 22, 2013 15:10:17 GMT -5
I own a bunch that are hdcd encoded but never listened to HDCD decoded signals due to no players that supported it. I'm going to be listening very shortly though now that I see the foobar plugin |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2013 15:14:50 GMT -5
I have a bunch of HDCD-encoded discs (all of the Grateful Dead catalog is HDCD-encoded) and all of my players for the past 10 years (Denon and Oppo) have supported HDCD. And yes, it does sound noticeably better than a regular CD...
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Post by geebo on Feb 22, 2013 15:35:15 GMT -5
I have some regular CDs that sound much better than some of my HDCDs. I think it depends a lot more on the overall care taken in the process than the method of encoding.
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Post by creimes on Feb 22, 2013 15:55:11 GMT -5
I'll have to give my Neil Young a spin tonight
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Post by jackfish on Feb 22, 2013 16:06:41 GMT -5
I own a bunch that are hdcd encoded but never listened to HDCD decoded signals due to no players that supported it. I'm going to be listening very shortly though now that I see the foobar plugin The Emotiva ERC-1 and ERC-2 and Oppo universal players do HDCD. |
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Post by roadrunner on Feb 28, 2013 23:29:52 GMT -5
If you have a well mastered CD adding HDCD encoding makes a noticeable improvement to the sound quality. If you have one of the Emotiva CD players, ERC-1 or ERC-2, listen to any of the Reference Recordings HDCD encoded albums and see what you think. All of the albums in the Reference Recordings catalog are exceptionally well engineered and are amongst the best sounding music I have listened to. I am addicted to Reference Recordings' offerings. Try some of their Samplers and see for yourself what a great bargain they are. I now have over 100 of their albums and love everyone of them. Just click on the link below. www.referencerecordings.com/THE ABSOLUTE SOUND Magazine 2011 High-End Audio Buyers' Guide said that Reference Recordings has the BEST AUDIOPHILE LABEL RECORDINGS in the industry. Many of their releases are Grammy Award winners. |
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Post by GreenKiwi on Mar 1, 2013 0:04:01 GMT -5
So with hdcd you effectively get 24/44.1 sound from a cd. (Well 20bits, but you probably only get 20bits effective from 24bits anyway.
Looks like its in decline. Guess people are moving to HD downloads, and or not caring about increasing dynamic range since they've compressed the range so much already.
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Post by creimes on Mar 1, 2013 0:11:39 GMT -5
i tried my only HDCD and really didn't notice any improvement heh, oh well everything is sounding sweet on the ERC-1 anyways so no complaints here.
Chad
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