Hey guys, just to inform you that a few high resolution digital downloads have been added on Acoustic Sounds.
Currently, three albums are available:
Queen: link
Queen II: link
A Night At The Opera: link
They are probably the masters used for the 2011 and 2015 releases, so basically the three that are right now available are the best of the bunch. I'd like to get Queen II, but sadly, customers outside of the US can't download it right now. I'm waiting for them to appear on Qobuz...
Estranged wrote:
Hey guys, just to inform you that a few high resolution digital downloads have been added on Acoustic Sounds.
Currently, three albums are available:
Queen: link
Queen II: link
A Night At The Opera: link
They are probably the masters used for the 2011 and 2015 releases, so basically the three that are right now available are the best of the bunch. I'd like to get Queen II, but sadly, customers outside of the US can't download it right now. I'm waiting for them to appear on Qobuz...
as expected.
They should've made this available as a free download for those who bought the Coloured box set / individual 2015 LPs.
I will wait for piratebay.
They're probably the original PCM masters, before they were converted to DSD and transferred to the SACDs.
I agree with the free download cards. That said, I don't care for the LP set, and I'll only get Queen II anyway.
Estranged wrote:
Hey guys, just to inform you that a few high resolution digital downloads have been added on Acoustic Sounds.
Currently, three albums are available:
Queen: link
Queen II: link
A Night At The Opera: link
They are probably the masters used for the 2011 and 2015 releases, so basically the three that are right now available are the best of the bunch. I'd like to get Queen II, but sadly, customers outside of the US can't download it right now. I'm waiting for them to appear on Qobuz...
as expected.
They should've made this available as a free download for those who bought the Coloured box set / individual 2015 LPs.
I will wait for piratebay.
I did buy Queen II. It is just the high res version of the louder 2011 remasters. Earlier pressings of the CD is way better overall. The only thing this remaster has is greater resolution in parts and imaging. But the sound is fatiguing. I have a high-end system and went back to my early German non-remaster pressing. It's sad that high res is not being used as it should. Dynamic range compression is not high res.
hi there,
I've found this old thread. I see HD Tracks now sells the following original PCM masters 24 96 of
Greatest Hits
Queen
Queen II
A Night at the opera
A Night at the odeon
On Air
They're not available to purchase outside USA, and can't see any other site where the original wav PCM not converted to FLAC can br purchased/downloaded.
Any idea or hint? thanks in advance
I'm not being pious, you're the one disrespecting others' perception of how useful hi res downloads are by suggesting the kind of transcoding that, if applied to mp3 / flac, would get you dog's abuse.
For the record, I understand that the human ear can't hear past 22khz, and that there is no record of a double blind test in which anyone could tell the difference between a well mastered CD and a 24/96 file.
However, I also logically understand that 24 bit is a more precise digital encoding method than 16 bit, and my experience of hi res files in general is that as they are targeted at audiophiles, they *tend* to utilise the best possible masters as a source, whereas I'm sure you'd agree that CD mastering can be very intermittent.
So, with that said, how does choosing a particular bit rate "ruin my enjoyment of music"?
edo1080 wrote:
hi there,
I've found this old thread. I see HD Tracks now sells the following original PCM masters 24 96 of
Greatest Hits
Queen
Queen II
A Night at the opera
A Night at the odeon
On Air
They're not available to purchase outside USA, and can't see any other site where the original wav PCM not converted to FLAC can br purchased/downloaded.
Any idea or hint? thanks in advance
Be cautious, that might be just a simple transcode. It wouldn't be the first time a website sells HD tracks which aren't actually HD.
Thanks for this info. But I still haven't found al alternative to the official HD Tracks site to buy them from Europe. And also shouldn't flac be equal to wav? It's a lossless codec so it shouldn't matter... but wav = pcm won't involve decoding therefore in the playback chain the decoding session should be bypassed, so the lesser the processing on the file the best the result should be
Do you have equipment that cost 10's of thousands of whatever currency you use? Forget how music looks on a waveform, don't listen to the snobs that have paid over and over again for every reissue (which is exactly why they keep reissuing the same old stuff.. why shouldn't they exploit these people?) Find a version of whatever album on whatever format you like from the past and buy the rest on that same release. If you like the original cassette release then buy them!