If you have the ability, play them both on your DAC and tell me if you can hear the difference - have a friend or spouse choose for you so you don't know which is what.
The HRx disc itself needs either one of our PerfectWave transports to play directly or if your DAC has a 192kHz 24 bit asynchronous input or network player attached you can rip and listen.
I have performed this particular experiment dozens of times with 100% results. Does that prove that Monty is incorrect? No. Monty is correct he just leaves out a lot of valuable information. For example, he leaves out the fact that nearly every recording mastered at a modern recording studio starts out at a higher sample and bit rate then redbook and to distribute a redbook or vinyl version of the track the mastering engineer must downsample the media - and the downsampled version clearly sounds worse than the master.
Monty also left out the fact that many times mastering engineers, like Keith Johnson, go back and "let 'er loose" when they can distribute their work in a master media format - where originally they had to throttle back the redbook version.
It's clear that if you take a redbook CD and upsample it to 192kHz 24 bit you've wasted your time and your bandwidth and memory. It's equally clear that an original master recording first captured at a high sample rate and bit depth and then downsampled to meet the lower redbook standards will sound remarkably different than the original.
But Monty didn't bother telling you that part of the story.
Here we go again
If you have the ability, play them both on your DAC and tell me if you can hear the difference - have a friend or spouse choose for you so you don't know which is what.
The HRx disc itself needs either one of our PerfectWave transports to play directly or if your DAC has a 192kHz 24 bit asynchronous input or network player attached you can rip and listen.
I have performed this particular experiment dozens of times with 100% results. Does that prove that Monty is incorrect? No. Monty is correct he just leaves out a lot of valuable information. For example, he leaves out the fact that nearly every recording mastered at a modern recording studio starts out at a higher sample and bit rate then redbook and to distribute a redbook or vinyl version of the track the mastering engineer must downsample the media - and the downsampled version clearly sounds worse than the master.
Monty also left out the fact that many times mastering engineers, like Keith Johnson, go back and "let 'er loose" when they can distribute their work in a master media format - where originally they had to throttle back the redbook version.
It's clear that if you take a redbook CD and upsample it to 192kHz 24 bit you've wasted your time and your bandwidth and memory. It's equally clear that an original master recording first captured at a high sample rate and bit depth and then downsampled to meet the lower redbook standards will sound remarkably different than the original.
But Monty didn't bother telling you that part of the story.
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