You have to use an app such as Onkyo HF. Hi Res audio is only worth it if you have source material that was recorded in that format. If you're listening to ANYTHING mastered on analog tape remixing into hi-res only adds artifacts.
Thanks man I'll have to look into finding the sync 3
I get my music from HD tracks they are reputable and don't just sell upsampled files. Some really great recordings on there.
Name an album.
I really like Madonna (don't judge hahah) Their recording of True Blue is amazing.
So the HDTracks people have a time machine that allowed them to go back to 1986 or whenever she laid that stuff down on analog tape, and were able to also record it to digital? Any source material recorded to analog will ALWAYS be upsampled in some way during the A/D conversion in the studio. If you want to hear that album in its most pristine condition find a copy of the 1st Japanese pressing on CD and rip it to .wav
Analog is never upsampled it is simply sampled. You do understand what digital audio is right? The difference between a 44khz file and a 192khz file is the number of "steps per second" (44,000times vs 192,000 times). A digital file is converted back to analog via a dac and played back as analog. HD tracks works with the labels and has access to the original master and then they create hi res files off that master ( if digital they don't go above the original masters sample rate hence no upsample). The reason hi res files sound better is they are more representative of the original source. If they just took a old file and converted it to hi res I agree with you it wouldn't sound better and may even introduce artifacts. HD Tracks doesn't do this... Most pristine copy of that madonna album would probably by a 180gram vynl pressing played back with a Koetsu cart.
Thxultra's got you on this one dude. The best way to listen to an album is from one recorded in analog and played through a record player with an analog tube amp (actually an old reel to reel would be better, but you won't find music for them anymore). It's recordings done in digital that suck, not analog. There's a reason bands like Foo Fighters went back to doing analog masters.
How? The original source was analog. What's on that tape is on that tape, now it's just in a bigger container than a 16/44.1 rip from CD. The sound shouldn't have changed. That's why early Black Triangles are so f'ng expensive. Most are flat transfers. Hence my statement that what HD tracks is doing is indeed upsampling when compared the original red book value. (If you took that to mean something else??)
That sort of backs up my point. But we're here discussing digital audio in a car. First vinyl pressings played through old Macs and some B&W's are always going to blow way what we try and achieve in a car.
I don't know, sounded to me like you were saying recordings done in digital were better. Ripped music is still better coming from an analog source over a digital one. That's where HDmusic is a neat place to buy music. A lot of those earlier recording are as close to the original as you'll get in a digital format.
