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  1. It would help all of us if you told us what system you're listening to your music through. I really don't think that you can say one method it "88% versus 91%". How are you measuring percentages? At present there is simply not enough information to know why your treble is lacking. For all we know you could be using just a subwoofer...
  2. I'm sure it will be back... Embarrassing since they just featured it prominently on their Fourth Anniversary "Private Sale" email. (Code is HD4 for a 15% discount).
  3. Pure Music allows you to play music files on your MAC that iTunes won't (such as FLAC, for example), as well as having a better playback engine. iTunes merely acts as the database for your music. If all your music files are 126kbs MP3 then Pure Music will be of no benefit at all, iTunes already handles this. Pure Music will help if you have a collections of FLAC rips of your CD collection, (although iTunes will handle ALAC files which are also lossless). So generally Pure Music will help you to play higher quality music files than iTunes (ALAC aside) on your computer. Please bear in mind that to get the true benefit of better music you will need to use high quality external speakers, not the internal ones on your computer. You will need additional kit to get the sound from your computer to the speakers (I use the Halide Bridge USB-S/PDIF cable, and there are other similar bits of kit you can read about on this site). However your insistence on using iTunes built-in equalizer (as Mark Powell points out above) having achieved "bit perfect" reproduction from playback makes no sense. It's a bit like trading in a Chevrolet for a Ferrari, and then sticking much thinner "space-saver" tyres on it and only driving it on cobbled roads.
  4. Been a member since they launched it. Always interesting stuff. Great shame they only do 24/48 rather than 24/96 though.
  5. I'm delighted that Qobuz have posted this here, it benefits all of us to have a good dialogue between the consumers and the sellers of these files. Sadly I have not heard directly from Qobuz about what they are going to do for those of us who have purchased this item in good faith believing it to be 24/96. However when I look at the Qobuz store the Air album does still appear there as a "Studio Master" 24/96. Je suis ravi que Qobuz ont signalé ceci ici, il bénéficie tous les nous pour avoir un bon dialogue entre les consommateurs et les vendeurs de ces dossiers. Tristement je n'ai pas entendu directement de Qobuz au sujet de ce qu'elles vont faire pour ceux de nous qui ont acheté cet article en bonne foi le pensant pour être 24/96.
  6. Analysis (if not the music) is better than Oxygene and Equinoxe.
  7. Same issue with loudness as Oxygene. One question I have to ask is do electronic music and synthesizers is should I expect higher frequency sound in the way I do with an "analogue" instrument?
  8. Frankly it's worth buying just for the cover art. Michael Parkinson, Kenny Lynch, James Coburn, Clement Freud, Christopher Lee and John Conteh...? What's not to like?
  9. No clipping shown in Audacity. I'll sit down and try to do a listen.
  10. Thank you for the pointers, goldsdad. Very helpful. You were correct about the dither, I wonder whether the programmers of Audacity know about the Meridian 518... Here is the new file with the dither off: As you say, it could be non zero padding, but they're certainly not zeroes.
  11. This is the output from Audacity looking at bit depth (with acknowledgment to goldsdad for the tips on how to do this). Opened file, duplicated it (Edit < Duplicate). Selected just one of the duplicate tracks and inverted it (Effect > Invert), and then exported file as 16-bit FLAC. Audacity mixes the two tracks open down to stereo. Importing the saved file gives the zoomed in waveform (dB) above. Looks 24-bit to me, but happy to accept advice or constructive criticism.
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