HDCD I looked it up and it says it some microboff crap

afterburnt

I just noticed that I got a Joni Mitchell CD that says it is HDCD. Is this something special? I usually rip my CD's FLAC to a hard drive and put them away (forever).

Nightfall

A very unpopular media type. They're usually CD/HDCD combos. Maybe always? Not sure.

I know Tool "Lateralus" was a CD/HDCD combo.

Nightfall

Looks like your Oppo will play a HDCD layer. Look for a light on the front that says HDCD.

honestaquarian

HDCD is something that professor Keith Johnson (*of Reference Recordings fame*) codeveloped to kind of expand the standard capabilities of the Compact Disc by encoding extra information in the LSB (*Least Significant Bit*) and then decoding and expanding upon playback on an HDCD compatible player/DAC.
Whether or not you notice a difference with pop music is highly debatable. However with classical it is quite noticable apparently. A lot of stuff was mastered in HDCD because a lot of recording and mastering engineers liked the way the HDCD encoders made the recordings sound.

afterburnt

Cool, I can do some side by side listening. I just ripped it in CD form so now I can see if my ear can tell.

afterburnt

Oh and "Mingus" is not pop music! lol

honestaquarian

The catch is that once you convert the format it usually strips away the HDCD encoding in the LSB.

afterburnt

I just wanted to know if I should keep em out of the storage bunker to hear some better sound on the player. All of my regular CD's get put in storage once I get them on to the hard drives.

Conradicles

The HDCD's I have sound quite well. I like it.

voltz

so many CD's out there

K2 HD CD
XRCD24
Gold CD
HDCD CD
UltraHD CD Produced using PureFlection process! This Ultra HD 32-Bit Mastering CD will play on ALL CD players!
XRCD2 CD
XRCD CD
DXD CD
and I believe there is a DSD CD

afterburnt

whoa Darryl, that may as well be Chinese to me! Are those the formats?

afterburnt

Maybe I got that kind of stuff but never looked close enough?

voltz

XRCD= Extended range CD's
I think XrCD2 & XRCD24 are upgrade version of the XRCD which JVC created along with the K2

HDCD was developed my Microsoft to increase the dynamic range over standard Red book CD's

GoldCD : A gold CD is one in which gold is used in place of the super pure aluminium commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs or silver on ordinary CD-Rs

Gold CDs can be played in any CD player. Blank gold CD-Rs are also available. They can be recorded in any CD recorder and played in any CD player.

The advantage of the gold reflection layer is its resistance to corrosion, in contrast to the ordinary aluminum layer found on normal compact discs, which reacts with the glue and plastic material and gradually becomes transparent over time, ultimately resulting in reading errors or total playback failure.

afterburnt

Wow thanks for splainin that!

heiney9

If you do a bit perfect rip into flac the HDCD capabilities are transferred to the rip. If you aren't practicing bit perfect ripping techniques, then it won't. So a side by side comparison will yield no differences. This of course is assuming you have a cdp or dac that decodes HDCD.

H9

heiney9

voltz wrote: »

XRCD= Extended range CD's
I think XrCD2 & XRCD24 are upgrade version of the XRCD which JVC created along with the K2

HDCD was developed my Microsoft to increase the dynamic range over standard Red book CD's

GoldCD : A gold CD is one in which gold is used in place of the super pure aluminium commonly used as the reflective coating on ordinary CDs or silver on ordinary CD-Rs

Gold CDs can be played in any CD player. Blank gold CD-Rs are also available. They can be recorded in any CD recorder and played in any CD player.

The advantage of the gold reflection layer is its resistance to corrosion, in contrast to the ordinary aluminum layer found on normal compact discs, which reacts with the glue and plastic material and gradually becomes transparent over time, ultimately resulting in reading errors or total playback failure.

I still have my very first silver cd I bought in 1984 and the so called cd rot really isn't all that much of an issue.

H9

heiney9

Sometimes I wonder if people know what Google is and how to use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Definition_Compatible_Digital

http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/HFN/HDCD/Enigma.html

pglbook

All of the recent official Grateful Dead releases (Dave's Picks series, box sets such as Spring 1990, Europe '72, 30 Trips Around the Sun, etc.) have been in HDCD. My Rotel RCC 1055 CD player plays HDCD and I notice quite a substantial improvement on sound quality on the HDCD CDs.

afterburnt

nevermind

afterburnt

nevermind

afterburnt

nevermind

afterburnt

@heiney9 I don't wonder

afterburnt

dont ask **** about nuthin on this bb

mikeyb128

afterburnt wrote: »

dont ask **** about nuthin on this bb

You've had too many pain killers and beer.

afterburnt

I wish.

afterburnt

heiney9 wrote: »

Sometimes I wonder if people know what Google is and how to use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Definition_Compatible_Digital

http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/HFN/HDCD/Enigma.html

Is he a dick or is just me?

[Deleted User]

I have about a dozen HDCDs. Other than they sounded great (and do)
I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference. I don't have a player that
takes advantage of HDCD currently, but did.

honestaquarian

HDCD was developed by Pacific Microsonics of which Keith O johnson was one of the founders. Not Microsoft

heiney9

Wow, some really thin skinned people here. Take a chill pill. I just get tired of very vague, general threads where it seems like people are too lazy to do a little research and then ask questions.

And no I'm not a dick, must just be you.

honestaquarian

It says in the Wikipedia lonk that HDCD was developed by Pacific Microsonics as I said above and then they were bought out by Microsoft.

afterburnt

Dat gam heiney sorry for makining your life difficult