World's First Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Downloads Coming Soon

[Mister Wednesday]

Greetings all,

 

An article on the AudioStream website which might be of interest to those of you who enjoy high resolution 5.1 channel surround sound music releases:

 

World's First Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Downloads Coming Soon! | AudioStream

 

Regards,

 

Mister Wednesday

[The Computer Audiophile]

Thanks Mr. Wednesday. Your post turned into quite an experience for me. I ended up at the e-Onkyo site where these 5.1 downloads will be released. The site is in Japanese language only. I found a DSD album I wanted to purchase so I fumbled my way through using Google translator and hovering over buttons to read where the links would take me. I ended up creating an account, purchasing, and downloading a DSD album. If anyone want to give it a shot, the site does have some good stuff, let me know how it goes :~)

 

I purchased the DSD album of Brandon Ross, Stomu Takeishi, Daisuke Suzuki: Live At AristoHall 2

 

Home Page of e-Onkyo Music

[The Computer Audiophile]

I'm listening to the album right now. Wow the sound quality is incredible. Also, the tracks downloaded very fast and contained all metadata embedded including album art. Great experience so far :~)

[ted_b]

DAC2x? How much was the download in US $$? And what format, DSF or DIFF?

[The Computer Audiophile]

You bet :~)

 

Based on the XE converter image below it was about $31. Well worth it.

 

The files have a DFF extension.

 

One question for you. Every transition to the next track has a loud pop sound. Any idea? It's only with this album.

 

[ted_b]

What software player are you using? I've found pops and clicks with Audirvana (Mac) and Foobar (Windows), but only on some rips. It's a silence between tracks header thing. Those rips, however, play flawlessly on my new MPD update (PK90USB). Weird.

 

Any idea of the provenance of the recording? I ask cuz in the DSD category clearly DXD (24/352 from 2L) and 24/192 stuff (from MA Recordings) are not DSD-recorded.

 

Edit: Looks to be DSD128 recording, according to google translate on recording page.

[Mister Wednesday]

Chris and others,

 

Here's the press release from Dolby Laboratories about this program which might answer some of your questions about what is being offered (from the Dolby Laboratories press release hyperlink imbedded in the AudioStream article):

 

http://investor.dolby.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=672401

 

Also note from the AudioStream article and the Dolby press release that an international version of the current Japanese download website (presumably in English) will be launched later this year in the Fall of 2012.

 

I have no connection to or association with any of the products, companies, persons or views expressed in the articles referenced above.

 

Regards,

 

Mister Wednesday

[The Computer Audiophile]

What software player are you using? I've found pops and clicks with Audirvana (Mac) and Foobar (Windows), but only on some rips. It's a silence between tracks header thing. Those rips, however, play flawlessly on my new MPD update (PK90USB). Weird.

 

Any idea of the provenance of the recording? I ask cuz in the DSD category clearly DXD (24/352 from 2L) and 24/192 stuff (from MA Recordings) are not DSD-recorded.

 

Edit: Looks to be DSD128 recording, according to google translate on recording page.

 

Hi Ted - I'm using the newest beta version of JRiver. I'll slide the files over to the DSD enabled SOtM sMS-1000 and see what happens.

[chrisg3]

Thanks Mr. Wednesday. Your post turned into quite an experience for me. I ended up at the e-Onkyo site where these 5.1 downloads will be released. The site is in Japanese language only. I found a DSD album I wanted to purchase so I fumbled my way through using Google translator and hovering over buttons to read where the links would take me. I ended up creating an account, purchasing, and downloading a DSD album. If anyone want to give it a shot, the site does have some good stuff, let me know how it goes :~)

 

I purchased the DSD album of Brandon Ross, Stomu Takeishi, Daisuke Suzuki: Live At AristoHall 2

 

Home Page of e-Onkyo Music

 

I tried to create account on e-onkyo music also using Google translate and trying various buttons but couldn't pass the process successfully. It stopped on creation of secret answer which was required in Hiragana which is Japanese phonetic alphabet. English alphabet didn't work for me. Great disappointment. After twitting e-onkyo music with dramatic request for english website, they answered they are planning on doing that in 2013. I will subscribe to their music store as soon they have english version. Or earlier when I overcame intricacies of Japanese alphabet. Plenty excellent high res PCM and DSD downloads there, just wish it was a little easier...

 

Chris

[The Computer Audiophile]

Hi Chris - When I ran into that problem I just googled for some random Japanese words and found something that worked.

[brucknerdoc]

This is what I entered which worked for me:

 

こんにちは

 

konnichiwa - good afternoon

[chrisg3]

Thanks guys. I tried copying few Japanese characters as well- it did not work at that time. Will copy yours, Brucknerdoc and see what happens...Make me feel better not only me who had problems

[tailspn]

For classical music DSD downloads intimately mic’ed like the Live at ARISTOHALL 2, take a look at Channel Classics. These are all native DSD recordings, and offer the opportunity to own the actual edit master of the event recorded.

[mav52]

Thanks guys. I tried copying few Japanese characters as well- it did not work at that time. Will copy yours, Brucknerdoc and see what happens...Make me feel better not only me who had problems

 

 

I just used Google Chrome and it gives you an option on setting the script for translation from Japanese to English for most ( not all) of the info.

[joelha]

Any good-hearted soul interested in giving a well-intentioned but slow-to-learn audiophile a quick step-by-step set of instructions for ordering from this site?

 

Thanks,

 

Joel

[joelha]

Surprisingly, I made it further than I expected. I'm registered but for some reason the site won't take my Visa card. Is there any (obvious) reason why that would be the case?

 

I'm getting the following message: This card can not currently be confirmed. Thank you for your inquiry directly to the credit card company.

 

Joel

[chrisg3]

I finally passed registration but have problem with credit card confirmation. The same message as Joel's .

It could be IP filtering which is often first line of defense for credit card authorization systems. It is probably better to do transactions during regular business hours. But it could be lots of other issues, mainly related to cc authorization systems. Really hard to say what is behind confirmation problems. I guess will try again at different times, hope it gets better.

[The Computer Audiophile]

I tried Visa but had to us an AmEx card.

[chrisg3]

Both my cards are Visa - no luck here

I hope they'll have paypal for english speaking clients one day . Never needed amex but now I may reconsider...I listened to few dsd tracks samples - don't know format they use for samples but the sound quality and realism is evident. Oh, what a pain not being able to get them...

[joelha]

American Express works. I'm in the middle of downloading right now.

 

I'm excited to hear what these tracks really sound like.

 

And I refuse to confess how much time I worked on this until I finally hit paydirt.

 

Let's just call it a triumph of persistence over intelligence.

 

Thanks for your help and for pointing out the site, Chris.

 

Joel