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re - BTW, was HDCD a fraud too?

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In Reply to: RE: So, one guy from Canada is claiming that a working majority... posted by John Marks on April 09, 2023 at 17:49:22

I have 2 Rotel machines with HDCD and they can sound pretty damn nice for CD's. The original one I purchased has many features for selectable dithering and other features. What determines the END result most of all and I've said this many many times - is the mastering!! Different places are all over the place when it comes to this and you cannot tell if they went past the 0 limit when they mastered because the display will not show it.

Remember the LOUDNESS WARS? Even if you have an LED display on the readout for the OP level it will always show ZERO even if they pounded +3 or more on the making of the CD on peaks but you may hear it as an occasional grating distortion. Irritating, makes you want to turn it off.

ONE THING IS FOR SURE - I can play for anyone examples of good and great CD's and also bad ones on my system to demonstrate. Classical music usually has the best end product when it comes to this followed by Jazz. Rock music is all over the place unfortunately.

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RE: re - BTW, was HDCD a fraud too? - Doug Schneider 12:20:09 04/13/23 (1)
Nobody is saying HDCD was a fraud. HDCD was a different thing altogether. Recognizing the 16-bit limitation of CD playback, they devised a clever way to use the least-significant bits to program instructions to the digital filter to behave in certain ways when it saw those instructions.

The thing is, the first HDCD-encoded CD came out in 1995 -- and higher-resolution digital playback was just around the corner. Furthermore, I'm not sure that right off the bat that there were any HDCDs that made the feature a killer to have. Microsoft ended up buying it and basically did nothing with it, as far as I know.

But an HDCD-compatible CD player was just a CD player in many respects -- and Rotel was and still is known for making good ones.

Doug
- So, from what you said it wasn't a fraud but it acted like a fraud. Nt - geoffkait 08:18:35 04/16/23 (0)
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