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Listening Feedback Room copies of Keith O. Johnson’s masters, with 24-bit precision and a 176.4 kHz sampling rate. Why does he use 176.4 rather than the more common 192 kHz? It’s because 176.4 is exactly four times the CD’s 44.1 kHz rate. Downsampling can therefore be done with fewer artifacts. For those listening at full resolution, the difference is insignificant. This is moot for the moment, because currently-available hardware doesn’t support either of those sampling rates. And when we tried to open an HRx file with Amarra, we got this warning. With iTunes we can downsample on 50 ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY <strong>Magazine</strong> the fly to 24/96 (but not, alas, 24/88.2), cello had a wonderful resonance. The and the result is magnificent. We are soprano seemed more distant, denoting eager for future computers to allow us increased depth, but at the same time to hear everything that is on those discs. the balance between cello and soprano But that’s for the future. Pure Music, was improved, which of course had unlike iTunes, downsamples those files musical significance. Choral voices were to 16/44.1, the Red Book standard. Forc- easier to pick up, and the counterpoint ing 24/96 operation THIS through MAGAZINE the com- was IS clearer INTERACTIVE! as well. Steve noted that puter’s Audio & Midi Utility resulted It work in the three dynamic ways. transition between soft in playback… at double In the speed. table of contents, and click loud on sections, an article which title, is a key to the There are workarounds, and you as we are shall whisked emotional right to tension the article. of the piece, is more see, but for the moment In the we list decided of advertisers not fluid on with the second-last Pure Music. page, to use the HRx files. click instead on an we ad name, used and It go wasn’t right to that the there ad itself. seemed to be two music selections in 24/96 resolu- Then click anything on an ad, wrong with iTunes, but Pure tion provided and to your us on browser flash memory will take by you Music right was to the getting advertiser’s more out Web of the page. piece. Fidelio, a Montreal Remember record label. when you’d have The to second circle little high-resolution numbers selection The first selection was the on a Schubert card you would was by then a Montreal mail in? Rom-inspired group, Ave Maria, featuring Vincent Doesn’t Bélanger’s that seem the like Manouche a long time Swing ago? Quintet, playing I cello, with organ and a soprano. Both Fall in Love Too Easily. versions were very good, but Pure Music Though it sounded, like the other was clearly superior. The organ’s lower selections, very good with iTunes, the notes were particularly rich, and the enhancement brought to it by Pure
Music was evident. “I picked up the tone combination from the start, and the counterpoint too,” said Steve. “The guitar is more realistic as well.” Pure Music also had an effect on the dynamics, and on the powerful sound of the plucked bass. There was a lot more subtlety to the saxophone, which allowed the lilting melody to develop as it should. The trumpet was dissonant but not strident. Gerard thought the sax reminded him of the one in the celebrated Antiphone Blues. “With iTunes this piece dragged,” said Toby, “and I was glad when it was over.” Pure Music added the liveliness it needed. Is Pure music worth what it costs? No doubt about it…but it has competition. Amarra Amarra is the audiophile division of a company well known to the professional recording world, Sonic Studio. Its products include NoNoise, which filters hiss, hum and other noises from master recordings. Its pro creds perhaps explain the prices of its software, $695. You expect pro-level software to cost this much. Photoshop is expensive, as is Adobe InDesign, on which this magazine is being assembled. To read the rest of this article, you can order either the print issue or Maggie’s electronic version. We continue with what looks like Latin, but it isn’t. Of course the paid version is uninterrupted! You may notice something unusual about UHF’s equipment reviews, the Crosstalk section. We have long done our reviews with a panel, typically of three reviewers. The main article is based on the consensus of the panelists. But what happens if we don’t agree? In our unique Crosstalk section, each panelist gets the chance to give his/her opinion, to add a nuance to the article, or even to disagree with the others. There is no pressure to conform. And why should there be? Readers tell us they like to see some disagreement. If we can disagree among ourselves, they can disagree with us too. And that’s good. Re facin henis nisl iustrud enim aute duis dignisc iliscipissi. Tum veliquat ulpute dolore volore facipsum esequat. Ut lan veliquat praese facilit lutpat nibh euguero ea feuguer suscing enismod dolorero odiamco rtiscil lamconsequat wismod modion vel ulputat. Utpation utpat augait am, core tisi. An hendreet nonsenim dit, ver sustrud dunt utet autem quam, sis augue magniam consequat adipis adiam, consed te ming esent loborper iure commodio commodit lum zzriure vullumsan henim iustin utatum vel ilis aut loborperilla feum do odolore commodolore dolore dolesto eu feu feu feuipsu scipit ad molorem ex ero odolobore dolobortie digna conullaor si bla consecte et exerit lum alismolore ming esent vullamc onullan henisl ute core vent volor si. Sumsandre con hent ilit nim nis accum nissequam ero eraestrud dolore ese dolore dolutat, volobore diat praestismod te facilla facil inci blan et aliquis ciliquiscil dignis am quis niamet nisse eniamet, sis nibh eraesen dionum zzrilla feuipis modolut adip euis dolessi. Iquametuerat nullamc ommolore con utatuer ostinit nos eugiam nos adionsed euisi ex eril ilismod te te mod et adionse quissent aliquisi te doluptat ing enit ea alis accumsan velessectem dolorpe rostrud dipis nonsenisi. Iril iure molobor sustismod molore mincilit acing er accum vulput in utat, quat ad eril doloreet lan euismol ortinim digna autpat lobor sectetum quamconulla commy niation sequatie el ip ea augait, consequam adionsectet alis ex exer sum zzriure eugiam iriurerit ad eros dit alit num del ullutpat, sisisl et et volorper si blam, quatem init, consequi bla coreet, vent iriusci bla feu feuipis modolore dolesse conulla feuis adit laor ilit lutpatin el in velisci ncilla facinibh eugait adipit nibh et nis nonsed magna feummod do coreros eugait il ex eugait wisi ex et num quisim aut atum del del dolobore eros endigniatue dolor secte ex eugiat. Illa corperostrud tisi. Rud doloreet wis alit ut lum in heniscidunt aut ing et lorper sequis non ut ilit lore facilis sequat. Duis ad dolor adiam quatiscidunt praestie er ametummod tat. Agna feuipisl essequis accum in utat. Andigna feuguer sustrud dolore conum ex et enisit prat vulputat iure dunt verit lutpat nullam velesto commolortie dolorpe riurem zzrit, senit nonsequis nibh er sum nim aliquis at accumsa ndrercipsum vent nullam, venis nim ipisim irit num euisis nisl ing elit wis adionullamet praestrud tie consequatue faccum autet, quis aliquat irilismolore exerat acidunt. ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY <strong>Magazine</strong> 51 Listening Feedback Room
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