[Gary Eickmeier]

"Audio Empire" wrote in message
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Has anybody a comment on how come nobody noticed, by listening (it was
found, apparently accidentally, by someone who was looking at the
frequency
distribution of some of the files he'd downloaded), that HDTracks and
other
web-based music selling services were (inadvertently?) selling up-sampled
16-bit/44.1 KHz material as "hi-rez" downloads and charging $20-$30 an
album
for them? Could it be that there is no AUDIBLE difference between
16-bit/44.KHz material and so called hi-rez as was found by Meyer and
Moran
in their notorius ABX study of DSD, and that's why the fraud supposedly
went
unnoticed even by the people selling the music files?

It works kind of like religion. They talk a big game, but when it comes down
to actually being able to hear these things, game over. The only real
advantage that there could be from the new formats would be the more careful
mastering of originals, or producing new recordings in good surround sound.
I am trying to look into some music videos on DVD in surround sound, to see
if anyone is getting it right with real acoustic space and not overproduced
rock/pop stuff. Haven't hit one yet, but not many of them under my belt yet.

Gary Eickmeier