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I don't know exactly. But they have the best product in this market. What a fantastic catalogue. They should not be so fragile.

Reports on stevehoffman.tv have been very good. Usually a good sign.

Yes, converted to WAVE but I erased it since then. The wave could not be opened by Adobe Audtion. I think this is basically what TLH does: pass the diagnose command line to the flac file. There is no doubt the file was corrupted. But what disturbs me is that it still returns the same checksum as a sane file.

I always thought that FFP (FLAC fingerprints) was a reliable and tested way to check if my music files were backed up properly, and not degraded in any way I use them. I put great emphasis on that, since I already, in the past, lost all my music files due to simultaneous two disk drives malfunction. Since then, I've become Mr Back-up personalized. But how to be sure that my back-ups are OK? FFP was it for me. Couple of days ago, I experienced something really disturbing. I bought a couple of hires albums on Qobuz, Jackie McLean's One Step Beyond to name one of them. FLAC files. Began to play them. Big problem occur at the 2:45 mark on the 1st file, then again same kind of problems (like a sampling problem) on the 2nd file. Not very happy, I downloaded the same files again, in WAVE. Played them. Perfect. OK. Encoded them in FLAC. Probably some problem on the Qobuz side. Or so I thought. Before replacing the old downloads with the new ones, I decided to run the FFP of the old downloads on the new ones, just to see if the other files of the album had the same kind of problems as well. Well well. For my FFP checker (Trader's Little Helper), the FFP of the faulty file was the same as the "sane" file. To be sure, I played each of them again. The faulty one continue to have the same weirdness at the same spot. The new one continues to play well. But for TLH, they have the same audio content. Wots the buzz??? Since you may be curious about it, I use Windows 10 and JRiver 19. And Trader's Little Helper 2.7.0 (build 172) PS Further analysis. Both of my faulty files returned an error with the "Test encoded files" function in TLH. "File is corrupted or otherwise corrupt" is the message.

This is great news. And for the others who like this McLean/Moncur band, there is the Grachan Moncur's Evolution album, in highres, as well. Both are at a super price at Qobuz. 10$ CAN.

Somebody knows which remastering is on sale on Qobuz? Prioce is pretty good and it is on my wish list, but I am not sure I want to buy a RVG remaster One Step Beyond | Jackie McLean – Télécharger et écouter l'album

Do we know who did the mastering on the HDTracks version? Is it the Reeves remaster? And is there a new FooBar Dynamic Range Meter? I cannot install this composant in the recent version.

120 cds and 1 year later, i am very happy with Murfie and have been able to find real gems for bargain price. But the price of their Gold membership just doubled (to 50$), which makes me pause a bit. And they now offer a Murfie Hifi membership, which offers you lossless streaming of your collection (instead of 320 kbs), for 100$ annually.

Oh it is very beautiful. Hall's tonality, his sense of rhythm, it is like floating in a jazz dream. I do not listen to a lot of duos myself, but this is kind of special. I noticed it was on a lot of best-of-the-year lists last year. I admit I probably would not have bought it otherwise. I am happy I did. "Down From Antigua" is a 5-stars perfo from Hall.

Thanks for the heads-up. I just bought the Jim Hall/Charlie Haden concert, which is supposed to be great.

And to add something else I have many SACDs (but no SACD player anymore) and I have a friend who thinks he can rip them and give them back to me in ISO form. Then what?

Please help a confused audiophile. I have a 24/96 DAC (Metric Halo ULN 2) and I use JRiver 19 (Windows) as a playback system. To avoid conversion on-the-fly by JRiver or my DAC, I always downsample my 24/192 files to 24/96 offline with an old version of iZotope I have (and keep my 24/192 files in an archive, for the day I will change my DAC, if it ever happens). Now I have a bunch of DSF files, that JRiver plays without problems, but I guess this on-the-fly conversion cannot help sound and I think I should downsample this to 24/96 as well, but the DSD format confused me. I am not sure which workflow I should adopt to avoid sonic degradation as much as possible. Do you have suggestions?

Well i don't knpow. Just bought the Joe Lovano's Sinatra concept album for 2$, an album i wanted to hear for a long time, praise reviews and all. A good Bootsy Collins compilation for 2$ A great Low album for 3$ Yankee Foxtrot Hotel for 3$ (it was about time!) And a amazing live Marianne Faithefull for 5 IIRC. Maybe less. Maybe I was lucky It is true, though, than some sellers are overpricing their albums. The recent mbv for 25$? Besnard Lakes at 16$? A bit ambitious! But I just saw the best Joshua Redman on sale for 2$

I discovered them less than one week ago. I am officially hooked. It is like having a second-hand music store open 24 hours a day in your basement! I go and visit much too often. I bougth 14 CDs, I could easily have buy 30. The only thing that irritates me is the way many sellers are selling multi-disc albums, one disc at the time, sometimes with different prices for each disc.

Is it a MC 20 feature? Becaise I can't ssem to make it work with MC 19.