I had an exhibit at a conference outside of Portland Or a couple of
weeks ago, demoing high quality music sources. The exhibit featured
master tape dubs (1/2 track 15ips) from the Tape Project, SACD
playback and Linn Records 24/96 downloads through an Apogee Duet
interface. The tapes stomped everything (I am extremely biased in
this case) but I did find that 'some' of the classical and jazz
downloads (FLAC) were audibly more realistic than any of the SACD
selections I had. I found the selection Giga de Coreli from La
Guitarra Espanola/William Carter guitar, any number of cuts from the
Arnie Somogyi' Ambulance (small ensemble jazz) and "Enough" from
Judith Owens album "Happy This Way." to put the 'download/FLAC files
best foot forward. I you wish to sample these, you can download
single songs for fairly cheap. As a desktop player I used sbooth.org
"Play".
Steve Koto
On Jun 8, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Matthew Snyder wrote:
> I am intrigued to find that at least one website (http://
> www.hdtracks.com)
> is selling CD-quality music tracks, with FLAC as a format option,
> and no
> DRM. I'm curious whether anyone else is using FLAC commercially.
> This is
> obviously only a case or two, but would this not bode well for the
> future
> of the format?
>
> Matt Snyder
> Music Archivist
> Wilson Processing Project
> The New York Public Library
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