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According to this interesting discussion and a print-screen of the spectrum analysis of "High-Wire Stunts", the effective dynamic range and SNR is about 12 to 13 bits, meaning lower resolution than standard CDs. However, another print-screen of a more detailed spectrum analysis was later posted and showed different (maybe better) results. But I don't really know what it means or how to interpret the results and no one there made any comment yet...

Well, that's all I do know...

 

We know that the Jurassic Park score was recorded digitally...

 

 We do?

Do we?

Do we do?

We know that the Jurassic Park score was recorded digitally...

 We do?

My PC is totally onboard (video, sound, ethernet...), but it can handle up to 192/24 for playback only (for recording is only 48/16). Also my blu-ray is able to decode 192/24 PCM and DSD streams from SACDs.

Here's the JW material I have to make comparisons

With the 2005 DVD-A of CE3K and the 1990 Varese CD, the difference is definitely not worth paying the extra buck. The 192/24 doesn't sound worse or better than the 96/24 version present on the same disc nor the standard 44.1/16 of the CD released 15 years earlier. It just sounds different.

Same thing with the 2002 SACD of E.T.. The DSD stream (even when downcoverted to PCM at 88.4/24) is just different than the CD counterpart. The catch here is the 5.1 sound. That is the only reason to buy this release.

Oh, just for the sake of it, the 2001 DVD-A of A.I. is at 88.4/24, but a user from another forum found out it's just an upconversion of the 44.1/16. Really shameful. And the 5.1 sound is a mess too. Avoid it!

Now JP, comparing the 192/24 to a properly dowconverted 44.1/16 (with dithers and all) doesn't sound diferent at all.

There are 44.1/16 lovers, 96/24 lovers, 192/24 and even DXD lovers (384kHz/24bit, some samples available at 2L Nordic Sound). There are SACD lovers (both DSD-64, which is the one used on all SACDs and the higher resolution DSD-128, both with samples available at 2L Nordic Sound). There are vinyl lovers... it's an infinite debate whether which is better. We'll never know, and I'm not willing to spend a fortune on speakers and processors and stuff like that because I simply can't . So, I'm happy with what I have. The only thing that is a fact is that we have excellent JW material on all of those formats (except DXD and DSD-128) and today is somewhat easy to play them all with acceptable quality without spending unnecessary money on equipments.

For those debating about which HDTracks version to buy, here are two articles about how 192khz/24bit releases are actually worse than 96khz/24bit releases!  The articles also points out that unless you have the right equipment, even the 96khz/24bit downloads won't sound as good as 44.1khz/24bit!

This seems highly illogical. I do agree that 192/24 won't do any miracles regarding 44.1/16 or 44.1/24... but, sounding worse???

Edit: I should add that this is the same as saying that watching blu-ray discs via composite video with an old CRT TV will be worse than watching DVD the same way...