This was the disc that got me into Lyle Lovett. Peter McGrath (IIRC) played North Dakota as a demo track at a Stereophile show in NY in the early noughties. Bet it sounds great on your system!
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As far as I know, itâs not MQA encoded, but Mosaic showed that itâs 24 bit.
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It sounds superb on my system!
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That is weird as there is no such thing as a 24 bit CD. It could be some other sort of optical disc but would not play on a CD transport. Has @AndrewS any comment?
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Mark-Almond: The Best of Mark-Almond
Prog-Rock, Jazz-Rock
Black Sun/Celestial Harmonies - 1990
16/44.1
DR: 13
I really like this album, especially the track âThe Cityâ.
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@Bauer I have just remembered that dCS units other than Vivaldi using Clone Mode pad 16 bit signals to 24 bit (it doesnât be add any information).
So your SHM CD is 16 bit and remains as such but the dCS unit is processing 24 bit data due to this (sort of) upsampling.
@PAR I didnât know that. Thanks, Pete.
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IIRC @Bauer doesnât have a transport (correct?) so I assume he was listening to a ripped file (please confirm). In which case all bets are off as the file may have somehow become padded to 24 bits during ripping (which of course doesnât affect the DR at all). If @Bauer can post a picture of a copy of the back of the disc (or wherever the details of the contents are) and describe his ripping workflow we might be able to get to the bottom of it.
OK. Havenât used dbpoweramp for many many years (although I have fond memories of it, itâs what I used to rip my own CD collection 20-odd years ago) so I canât remember the settings and even if I could they have probably changed by now. But I wouldnât mind betting there is an option to select the bit depth of the target FLAC and in the absence of any evidence to the contrary can only assume that was set to 24 bits in this case. There is no other reason Mosaic would flag the contents as 24-bit.
Yes, dbpoweramp can change bit depth using DSP.
Do you use dbpoweramp to rip the DSD layer from that SACD? Didnât think dbpoweramp could do that; only the CD layer. Which would result in a PCM file of some sort (FLAC, WAV or AIFF or whatever you set dbpoweramp to do).
To rip the DSD layer requires a whole different workflow using either a specially-prepped PS3 or Blu-ray player and sacd_extractâŠ
Paul, he was not playing an SACD but a rip of an SHM CD. These are the same as redbook CDs ( 16/44.1) but manufactured with a grade of polycarbonate having (asserted) superior optical characteristics.
Well, he listed DSD64 as track format in his post; which is something that, to my knowledge, dbpoweramp cannot get off an SACD. But perhaps @Bauer can elucidate?
Steely Dan: Canât Buy A Thrill
Jazz-Rock
?, this is what he listed:
SHM-CD
24/44.1
DR: 8
Are you confusing this ( Canât Buy a Thrill, Steely Dan) with something else e.g. the Police album which follows in the thread and which is DSD64 ?
Yeah, was referring to the Police album (right before Andrewâs post).
Blicher, Hemmer, Gadd
Qobuz - 16/44
Live album - awesome lively recording⊠one for your dems Andrew.
Drums, Hammond B3 and Sax.
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