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Is Blu Ray stepping up with music only discs?

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Charles Peterson

I've looked at several lists of new Blu Ray music discs and I'm disappointed. Mostly they are live concert disks, not studio music discs. Music is usually secondary on live concert discs. The best music is almost always from studio or special recording sessions (yes there are a few notable exceptions).
SACD being a music-only format has always featured studio music. DVD-Audio had a foot in both camps, with potentially superior fidelity (IMO) to SACD from 24/96 or 24/192.
When Blu came blasting in, there was promise that Blu would be the replacement for everything that came before, including DVD-Audio and SACD (which was no longer a key feature across the Sony disc player line).
But it seems to me Blu hasn't actually stepped up to the bar. I wouldn't be surprised if I can actually get more studio recorded music (and maybe even concerts) in the long since "dead" format of DVD-Audio.
I've had Oppo BDP-95 since the month it came out, purchased originally to play Blu movies, but as soon as I tried DVD-Audio and SACD on it, it stayed in my audio room instead. I've got exactly one Blu movie disc so far, never even watched it. But I *could* use it to play Blu music discs too, if there were any notable ones. I want stereo with fidelity equivalent to 24/96 or better.

Edits: 09/20/11

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RE: Is Blu Ray stepping up with music only discs? - bassbinotoko 23:28:06 12/23/11 (1)
There's "Pure Audio" for audio-only Blu-rays. If I understand correctly, it's mostly just a menu technique that makes it easier to play music with a Blu-ray player without a display connected. It's fully compatible with the the current Blu-ray spec.
One drawback of Blu-ray is that sample rates can only be multiples of 48k, so 16/44 stuff has to be resampled. You might as well use "Audio DVD"; essentially a video DVD with the video replaced by a single frame or slideshow; it should be compatible with all DVD players, and allows up to 24/96 PCM audio. The link lists some ways to make Audio DVDs or DVD-Audio. I'm pretty sure you can build Blu-ray audio disks using MultiAVCHD, but it'll take some patience to figure out how.
Cirlinca's HD-Audio Solo Ultra looks like a good product: you can make DVD-Audio, Audio DVDs, or Audio Blu-rays.
- http://24bit.turtleside.com/ (Open in New Window)
Edits: 12/24/11
- Drawback? - Kal Rubinson 07:42:49 12/24/11 (0)
  "One drawback of Blu-ray is that sample rates can only be multiples of 48k, so 16/44 stuff has to be resampled."
  
  Why would one care? If the purpose of this is as a vehicle for high resolution audio, upsampled or, even the original, 16/44.1 is irrelevant.
  
  Also, the "Pure Audio" BRDs can accommodate up to 7.1 channels and up to 24/192.
  
  Kal
Depends. - Kal Rubinson 05:24:50 09/21/11 (0)
There is a slowly growing representation of classical audio-only Bluray discs.

Kal

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