文档介绍：Sound+Vision HDtracks
Ultimate Download Experience
A High-ResOLUTION 96kHz/24bit Introduction
e to the Sound+Vision HDtracks Ultimate Download Experience
Sampler, or what I also like to call the ODAU—your Official Digital Aural
Upgrade. With this sampler, you e to know what it truly means
to achieve the ultimate download experience via nine tracks encoded in
professional-quality 96kHz/24bit audio, all handpicked for your maximum
enjoyment and enlightenment. In short, it’s what great sound is all about. If
you’ve never been engrossed by music this way before—or even if you’re a
veteran of pression wars—you’re in for quite a treat.
Happy listening. Ready, set, immerse!
Mike Mettler
Editor-In-Chief, SOUND+VISION
Sound+Vision HDtracks
Ultimate Download Experience:
The Best Way to Upgrade Your Downloads
Here’s why HDtracks high-resolution downloads sound so much better than
your CDs.
By Brent Butterworth, S+V Contributing Technical Editor
What do you want to hear when you listen to music? Do you want a lower-
fidelity version of what the artists, engineers, and producers heard in the
studio? Or would you prefer to hear exactly what they heard in the studio?
Of course, you’d prefer the latter. But you’re probably getting the former—
unless, that is, you’re listening to high-resolution downloads from HDtracks.
If you’re listening to CDs, MP3s, or even vinyl records, what you’re hearing
is not a precise copy of the original digital recording or analog tape. It’s
downconverted. If it’s on CD, the digital resolution has been reduced. If it’s
on vinyl, the audio has been remastered and the record you’re listening to
is actually a third-generation mechanical copy.
Sure, it might sound OK. But it’s not the best fidelity you can get. HDtracks is.
WHAT IS HIGH-RESOLUTION AUDIO?
Basically, high-resolution audio has more information and thus better fidelity.
It’s paring a 1-megapixel image from a digital camera with an
8-megap