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thanks to all of you guys. I appreciate your time and patience! Reading the article

thank you very much! is it impossible the sub amp act like a direct box, as it has phase and ground lift switches?

I bought the active subwoofer KRK 10s to use with my active KRK RP6 monitors, but my soundcard only has RCA unbalanced out. Can I connect it to the subwoofer unbalanced in and then output the signal to the monitors using the XLR balanced outs? will i get any sound on the monitors? will it be balanced on the process? Just asking cause the subwoofer user manual doesn't anything about using diferent in and out interfaces and I didn't buy the cables yet. thanks

Michael Jackson - Got To Be There This album has three very different sounding versions. The best way to hear is getting the tracks separately from Michael Jackson and J5 1986 anthologies, not the fuller sound but by far the best tonality. The 1986 Motown first press Got To Be There and Ben albums have similar dynamic range to the anthologies but an in-your-face and an ear-bleeding EQ. I don't know if this is in the master tape, maybe the anthologies are from safety copies... All I know is this HDTracks new release sound more similar to the in-your-face one, without the ear-bleeding but heavily bass boosted Redbook (86's Got To Be There - MOTD 5416) foobar2000 1.2.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2013-06-01 01:08:55 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: ? / ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR13 -1.60 dB -16.21 dB 4:13 ?-Ain't No Sunshine DR13 -1.60 dB -17.45 dB 3:03 ?-I Wanna Be Where You Are DR12 -1.60 dB -15.79 dB 3:51 ?-Girl Don't Take Your Love From Me DR12 -1.67 dB -16.95 dB 3:41 ?-In Our Small Way (got) DR14 -1.60 dB -17.70 dB 3:25 ?-Got To Be There DR13 -1.60 dB -16.36 dB 2:35 ?-Rockin' Robin DR13 -3.07 dB -18.69 dB 3:25 ?-Wings Of My Love DR14 -1.60 dB -17.92 dB 3:43 ?-Maria (You Were The Only One) DR13 -1.60 dB -16.75 dB 2:54 ?-Love Is Here And Now You're Gone DR13 -1.60 dB -16.53 dB 4:54 ?-The Jackson 5 - You've Got A Friend -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 10 Official DR value: DR13 Samplerate: 44100 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 16 Bitrate: 1411 kbps Codec: PCM ================================================================================ HDTracks 24/192: foobar2000 1.2.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2013-06-01 01:02:07 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: ? / ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR12 0.00 dB -13.50 dB 4:12 ?-01-Ain't No Sunshine DR13 0.00 dB -15.80 dB 3:01 ?-02-I Wanna Be Where You Are DR12 0.00 dB -13.46 dB 3:48 ?-03-Girl Don't Take Your Love From Me DR13 0.00 dB -14.27 dB 3:43 ?-04-In Our Small Way DR14 0.00 dB -15.73 dB 3:17 ?-05-Got To Be There DR13 0.00 dB -14.02 dB 2:36 ?-06-Rockin' Robin DR12 0.00 dB -13.92 dB 3:23 ?-07-Wings Of My Love DR13 0.00 dB -14.79 dB 3:42 ?-08-Maria (You Were The Only One) DR12 0.00 dB -13.47 dB 2:50 ?-09-Love Is Here And Now You're Gone DR13 0.00 dB -14.46 dB 4:54 ?-10-You've Got A Friend -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 10 Official DR value: DR13 Samplerate: 192000 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 24 Bitrate: 9216 kbps Codec: PCM ================================================================================

could you post the Dynamic Range? This is the 1983 japanese redbook foobar2000 1.2.3 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2013-02-26 15:53:34 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: ? / ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR12 -1.31 dB -15.78 dB 5:05 01-CD Track 01 DR10 -3.58 dB -16.02 dB 3:58 02-CD Track 02 DR12 -2.48 dB -17.68 dB 5:06 03-CD Track 03 DR11 -4.36 dB -18.75 dB 4:04 04-CD Track 04 DR11 -2.90 dB -16.44 dB 3:52 05-CD Track 05 DR11 -2.09 dB -16.48 dB 4:32 06-CD Track 06 DR12 -2.34 dB -17.40 dB 3:41 07-CD Track 07 DR12 -3.11 dB -16.80 dB 4:12 08-CD Track 08 DR13 -1.44 dB -18.39 dB 4:05 09-CD Track 09 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 9 Official DR value: DR12 Samplerate: 44100 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 16 Bitrate: 1411 kbps Codec: CDDA ================================================================================

I've downloaded an illegal SACD 88khz rip to hear how this compare to the original redbook to decide if it worths. They sound almost identical, but "Girl Just Wanna Have Fun" is DR8, against the original which is DR10. But both "Time After Time" are DR11. Does it happen in your HDTracks version?

Thank you very much for the information. But today I actually downloaded an illegal 24/192 for test purposes and it has the messed pan just like the sample

any difference to this?

Are you talking about the Best Of or the HDtracks download?

I had the song "You've Got A Friend" from Roberta's 1986 "Best Of", and listening to both 24/96 and 24/192 HDtracks samples, at least this song has the stereo pan messed up https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD603497933280. Both singers are in the left channel... maybe it's a different lackluster mix, but I think something got wrong at the transfer

Mark, no one is criticizing the sound quality nor comparing to the mono mix. The issue here is if the 192 khz and 96 khz are being delivered and deserve to be way more expensive than the 44 khz version

I've asked for mastering credits of an album a long time ago and never got answered. about the download issue, what happens is the software doesn't resume from where it stopped because, at the second time, the destiny location is automatically changed to a subfolder called "96 khz" or "192 khz'. All you have to do is to move the ready files from the root folder to there, even after the new downloads started, that they will be recognized as complete and the missing ones will start

He was talking about the mastering, not the mixing. I've finally found an article about how was the entire process. The first thing Mark did was to transfer the two analog multi-tracks to a 16-bit 44.1/48khz machine, because they had to digitally synch the instrumental tape with the vocal tape. So my question now is answered. This was not a direct, but is conceptually an upmix. The difference of the 192 khz to the 96khz version is the first was probably able to get less errors while reaching a maximum real resolution of 16/44.

OK Mark, but what was the resolution you worked on at 1996 before reconverting the thing to analog?