Shostakovich Syms 1-15 (complete) Kitajenko/Cologne – SURROUND/Stereo 12 SACDs [FLAC]

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Thank you bobtheknob. You are the best for Classical music encoded in high-resolution and your musical tastes are nonpareil.

Thanks again Bob. You truly are one of the best here!
Thank you bobtheknob. You are the best for Classical music encoded in high-resolution and your musical tastes are nonpareil.You’re both very kind, thanks. https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B6U4A_vYuii5aHktVEJBVkgta2s

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I wish, with all the versions you are uploading, you could include clean sacd iso files. I usually listen stereo hires flacs and wonder if there is any audible difference between pcm and dsd.

I usually listen stereo hires flacs and wonder if there is any audible difference between pcm and dsd.Hi mallet, you bring up a great question. The short answer is that, honestly, no, there’s no difference in what you ultimately hear coming out of your speakers.

The soundwave structure is admittedly different with DSD because it’s "one-bit", which is, theoretically, supposed to mean limitless amplitude, but the truth is that, somewhere along the line during the playback process, your equipment is going to have to convert the DSD signal into a PCM signal that comes out of your speakers, meaning that the final end-listening amplitude is still going to be limited by your equipment. There’s just no avoiding it. Sound technicians keep coming up with ways to continually push the DSD-to-PCM conversion further and further back from the source media (the SACD) to the eventual speaker-output in the name of maintaining the original signal’s integrity in a more "pure" state (which is certainly a good thing, to be sure), but the conversion is still inevitably going to have to occur before your speakers (or headphones) actually pump the physical sound waves into the air in your listening environment.

And considering that the human ear’s maximum threshold of sound perception is just under 50 kHz, by listening to .flac files that are at 88.2 kHz like the ones that I usually upload, you’re already beyond the level of clarity that human ears can perceive, so ratcheting it up to a higher level (such as an SACD’s original sampling rate of 2.8224 mHz) is not going to make an audible difference (except to dogs).

In fact, with this in mind, BIS Sweden, one of the more prominent classical studios in the business today, has stopped making DSD masters in the their recording sessions altogether. They sell their original Hi-Res Stereo and Surround Sound recordings as .flac files mastered at 96 kHz/24-bit, because they have found that the expense of direct-mastering in DSD doesn’t make an appreciable difference. They re-master these recordings enough to get them issued on SACD disks, but their SACDs don’t have any higher level of original sampling or bit rate than the original 96 kHz/24-bit masters that were made in the studio.

With all this techno-babble that I have just spewed in mind, combined along with the fact that uploading SACD .iso files along with the .flac files I’m already providing would pretty much double the size of every share I post here (and my MediaFire account is already about 2/3 full), it just isn’t worth it from what I can see.

Hope this helps!

BobtheKnob

Thank a lot for fantastic Upload

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