High resolution CD's from JVC

F1nut

Interesting development, http://www.whathifi.com/blog/victors-plan-to-turn-cds-into-high-resolution-threatens-the-entire-hd-music-industry

BlueFox

Thanks. That is interesting. Good to see more are thinking of how to improve CD level sound.

Big Dawg

Good to see that there are companies trying to meet the demands of the higher resolution market. Not so good in the manner by which they plan to meet that demand.

mantis

When JVC released XRCD back probably going on 10 years or so now , I thought " this is an excellent idea". The disc can be played in standard CD players and has a higher quality recording. When I talked to the Engineer from JVC who did the transfers , they went back to the master recordings and made a new one onto the new format. He was very excited about this as it really improved on the overall sound quality of the Album. I was way in as SACD and DVD AUDIO of that time you needed a special player or players to replay those formats. Not a huge deal as they starting putting those formats right in DVD players which made it easier for the general public to acquire them. I picked up a few recordings that I enjoy and they really sounded excellent. The problem for me is most of the stuff I enjoy listening to isn't on XRCD. So I have like 3 or 4 of them and thats it. Back then when I went out to buy a new cd , Yes younger Gen , us older guys got off the chair and drove to a store to buy music ,I always looked for XRCD's versions of the music I wanted to buy. I left so many times disappointed as also with SACD. Tower Records has the biggest selection and they really lacked on what I wanted to buy. I always ended up just buying the CD and not being exactly happy with my purchase.

This new idea of taking a CD and up sampling it is not as attractive as XRCD or a brand new HD remaster. I'm always open minded on these kinds of things as if they release a CD that I own and it sounds better then the original , I'm in. Sounding better not re eq'd to full people into thinking it's better. I want to hear more of the recording that is supposed to be lost in the CD transfer as claimed.
They talk about Pioneer and the technology they use , it's designed to cut down on jitter from what I understood. The transfer will allow everything to be hear that is , not restore what didn't make it.
Maybe I misunderstood that part.

I'm actually not hugely interested in buy anymore Disc formats. I like the whole High Rez Download idea and think it's fantastic. I really wish Itunes would jump into that game and offer High Rez of whats actually offered. Then there would be no use for 3 party software programs to run .flac files and such in order for itunes to play High Rez stuff.

We live in a world where good enough is excepted. In a recording studio , a master is made. There is no reason on this planet earth why we the people can't have that version transferred to a media weather it's a disc or download. All of the portable players , small stereo systems , car radio and high quality systems in our homes would have the ability to sound the best they can. XRCD tried to do this , SACD and DVD AUDIO attempted this , the CD can pull it off with it's limitations , or a High Rez download files can do this. I believe that is all that should be offered , high rez. Hard Drives are so cheap now we can have thousands of songs in very high quality.

It's a bunch of marketing bullcrap that it needs to be altered to be replayed on head phones or car stereos. I think re equalizing should be against the law in the making . If you want to do it in your home , feel free , don't EFF with the original recording. Leave it as it is.