Diana Krall's Turn Up The Volume in DSD128 Stereo

[bmoura]

Here's an interesting one.

Acoustic Sounds Super HiRez has a DSD Download of Diana Krall's new album Turn Up The Quiet available for $24.98 as a Stereo DSD64 purchase. It's one of their top sellers.

However, when you get the DSD Download, it turns out to be a Stereo DSD128 download (!)
A nice bonus - unless you don't have DSD128 playback in your setup.

 

 

http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/126125/Diana_Krall-Turn_Up_The_Quiet-DSD_Single_Rate_28MHz64fs_Download

[sdolezalek]

The website now says: "Sorry this product is no longer available" only offering the 192 and 96k versions.  

[CatManDo]

The DSD64 download page says

 

"DSD files were compiled by the mastering engineer Eric Boulanger at The Bakery in LA from original 24bit audio sources provided by the engineer and mixer Al Schmitt."

 

So what you get (if it becomes available again) is DSD files converted from a 24bit PCM recording

[Mercman]

Yeah, the original is PCM, but the DSD128 sounds pretty good. One could also use the HQPlayer to convert the PCM to whatever.

[sandyk]

Out of curiosity only, as I don't use DSD, I tried to find out what tracks were on it, and the track titles.

 Much to my surprise, I located a copy of the download.

No, I will not be downloading it though.

[Audiophile Neuroscience]

15 hours ago, CatManDo said:

DSD files converted from a 24bit PCM recording

 

IMO false advertising, possibly why they stopped offering it.

[barrows]

I am looking to pick up this album, and am looking into the recording detiails.  Downloads are available in 24/96, 24/192 and of course the DSD which AS admits is a conversion from PCM.  I only play DSD 256 here, but I wonder what the original recording rate was.  I suspect it was 24/96, but am trying to figure it out.  Of course, it might be worth picking up the re-modulation to DSD, but only if the conversion was done really well.  As we rarely get to hear about how these conversions are done (which SRC software was used) I think I would rather pick up whatever was the native rate, and then let my system do the conversion.

 

 

[JoeWhip]

In the old Home Theater Geeks podcast, Scott Wilkinson interviews the mastering engineer for this recording. It has been awhile since I watched it but I recall him saying that the material he was sent to master was at 24/192. I am sure that the podcast is probably still up on you tube.

[barrows]

17 minutes ago, JoeWhip said:

In the old Home Theater Geeks podcast, Scott Wilkinson interviews the mastering engineer for this recording. It has been awhile since I watched it but I recall him saying that the material he was sent to master was at 24/192. I am sure that the podcast is probably still up on you tube.

Thanks, I went ahead and downloaded the 24/192.  I know Al Schmidt used the Bricasti M7 for reverb and it is capable of running at 24/192, so perhaps they did keep the recording chain at 24/192...