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Joe Murphy Jr

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In Reply to: RE: Are quality DVD-A discs still ... posted by Pete Watt on February 24, 2011 at 07:54:33

Very high quality recordings are still being released by AIX Records, but it's not mainstream music. I have several of their releases and I can tell you that they are audiophile quality 24/96 material. And Mark Waldrep says there's no watermarking on his recordings: this in itself disqualifies many other companies' DVD-A releases from being true High Resolution audiophile quality product.

AIX is also releasing in the Blu-ray format. I talked to Mark Waldrep about his choice of using Dolby TrueHD and he assured me that he sets Dialog Normalization to OFF (-31dB) in the encoder.

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Is there a way to....... - mitch2 17:36:51 02/26/11 (5)
Please forgive my newbee stupidity in this area but, is there an easy way to download hi-rez music and then copy to a DVD-A in 24-96 or 24-196 for playback on a DVD-Audio player? If that could be done then the OP would have access to DVD-A of every disc that can be downloaded in hi-rez. Or, am I way off base?
- What I use is... - DAVID 20:26:55 02/27/11 (0)
  ...called:
  - Toast (Open in New Window)
- yes - Joe Murphy Jr 19:31:28 02/26/11 (3)
  All you need is software that will burn the High Resolution files to a DVD. There are a few programs out there that will burn up to 24/96 (the DVD-V format's max resolution) on a DVD. You'll need specialty software to actually make a DVD-A disc, however, but you then get access to making DVD-A discs with up to 24/192 resolution.
  - smore info - Joe Murphy Jr 19:51:05 02/26/11 (2)
    There's "for purchase" DVD-A software such as
    
    http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69&Itemid=83&lang=en
    
    and there's also some software available on the internet for free, such as DVD-A Explorer
    
    http://www.videohelp.com/tools/DVD-Audio_Explorer
    
    and this
    - one. (Open in New Window)
    - thank you Joe - mitch2 08:06:01 02/27/11 (1)
      I am just getting started with this. I sort of like having the discs and am not quite ready for a server since things keep changing (and getting better) so quickly. I do own a pretty good hi-rez (DVD/DVD-A) player. IME, the 24/96 regular DVD's would be a good place to start, but I will have to zero in on loading the program, learning how to use it, and finding the music for download. Where can one find whole albums/discs in hi-rez for download?
      - here's a good start - Joe Murphy Jr 13:46:18 02/27/11 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: thank you Joe posted by mitch2 on February 27, 2011 at 08:06:01
        
        The list linked below is from computeraudiophile.com and it contains many other site suggestions from members in the comment section.

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