New release from Soundkeeper recordings
Reply #7 – 2014-11-27 14:31:17
I do like the sound. I'm reminded of some Tom Petty and some Travelling Wilburys among others from the 1990s but with a very nice headphone listening experience. Despite the fact they profess to accept some audiophile myths caused by sighted listening tests and cognitive biases, it merely seems to be overkill, without harming the sound. This example is a doozy and wouldn't get past TOS#8 in these parts.From the Soundkeeper Recordings FAQ (emphasis mine): At this time, Soundkeeper Recordings does not offer downloads for several reasons. First and foremost, we seek to deliver our recordings to our customers with nothing less than the very best sonics. From our perspective, current download schemes involve compromises. A full album at 24/192 can be larger than 4 Gigabytes in size; this would make for unacceptably long download times, even on today's fastest networks. Where others reduce file size and hence, download times, by utilizing so-called "lossless" compression formats (such as .flac or .alac), to our ears , these will result in some lost fidelity when played back directly . Trading fidelity for convenience is not what we want to offer our customers, so we stay with raw PCM formats (such as .aif and .wav). Soundkeeper Recordings releases are recorded and mastered in .aif format. And there's stuff about slow burned CD-R red-book sounding better than pressed CD red-book too. I guess they're playing the jitter card without naming it.