If you or anyone else want to discuss it further discuss it with Dr. They just want to re-sell the same content to you one more time at a premium price.
If the source was from a 4th gen master tape that was created for distribution on an LP then just label it as such and quit trying to pass it off as high rez along with the higher price tag.
Waldrep's push to have the labels and content providers state honestly what the source of the music is we are buying. Neil must have got some heat over his claims because later on he re-worded the marketing hype as 'best available'. In other words CD quality (or less) pushed out in bigger bit buckets to make it appear as high rez. But the truth was the vast majority of the music available from Pono was only CD quality. Neil was apparently on record claiming he didn't like the sound quality of CDs thus reason for the Pono initiative. Waldrep's blog, the gripe was when Neil started Pono it was advertised as all high rez material. A solution that does both is an oppo bluray player.Ĭlick to expand.In a nut shell, according to what I've read on Dr. Occassionally there is a mo-fi remaster of a classic on SACD, in which case I'll always default to the SACD. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.
SACD TO FLAC CONVERTER FREE
When confronted with the same album probably mastered the same, I'll choose flac from HDtracks. fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. I'd recommend a solution that allows both. I wish I had an Oppo-BDP-103 and I'd rip my SACDs to DSD files and put them on the stick as well. I can navigate the usb from my ipad and play anything in my collection. My favorite, least expensive, and most legal and trouble-free method is to put an SACD into a low-end Oppo universal disc player, press play, and then say, 'Let's pretend this is a FLAC file' as the beautiful music starts. I just load up all my flac files from hd tracks and apple lossless files from CDs ripped in itunes and put them on a 256gb ssd based thumb drive that stays plugged into my oppo-bdp-203. Ripping a SACD's CD layer takes more time, XLD takes about 20 seconds. I use XLD and convert them to apple lossless and put into itunes for putting on my phone and USB stick for the car. I think I prefer the flac files to be honest. I use and Oppo BDP for SACD playback and my reciever doesn't decode DSD so the Oppo puts out 88/24 LPCM to the reciever (on headphones i use the analog and the oppo does a direct DSD to analog conversion, even then I don't notice it being any better than 96/24 flac). There are some out of print SACDs I wanted that are available as flac downloads, so I almost always now check that first. I buy 96/24 flac files from HD Tracks and I also buy SACDs.
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