Love is Here To Stay - Bennett and Krall

[wdw]

Technical note from the Prostudiomasters site below.  No idea what they are selling; a 96/24 without 96/24 or MQA or what?  Dunno!

 

96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Verve Label Group Studio Masters

Tracks 1-12 – contains material which utilizes a limited amount of the available bandwidth

 

Reply from customer support;

 

Hello Warren,

Thank you for contacting us regarding the latest album by Diana Krall / Tony Bennett "Love Is Here To Stay".

This album is availble in 96 kHz resolution (it's not upsampled), but based on our audio data analysis it contains material which utilizes a limited amount of the available bandwidth.

Best regards,

Avery
ProStudioMasters

 

 

 

 

 

[AudioDoctor]

Qobuz streams it in 24/96 FLAC.  They don't do MQA.

[wdw]

4 minutes ago, AudioDoctor said:

Qobuz streams it in 24/96 FLAC.  They don't do MQA.

 

 

Yes, looking forward to Qobuz coming to North America.  Do they make any disclaimers about the available spectrum?  Album sounds good streaming on Tidal and Bill Charlap Trio as back-up is just sublime but am concerned by the tech note.

[AudioDoctor]

They do not. Why worry about it though?  Just enjoy the music.

[wdw]

17 hours ago, AudioDoctor said:

They do not. Why worry about it though?  Just enjoy the music.

 

Do enjoy the music but was wondering about the caution.  Seemed odd to me.

 

Reply from Prostudiomasters:  Great group as it is clear they test all files 

 

SEP 17, 2018  |  03:56PM EDT 
Customer Support replied:

Hi Warren,

The maximum reproducible frequency of a 96 kHz PCM file is 48 kHz. The cutoff frequency of the musical material in this particular album is approximately 29 kHz, with an additional noise floor ranging until at least 33 kHz. Both of these figures are well above the 24 kHz cutoff which would be imposed by a recording originating from a 48 kHz PCM file, but sufficiently below the maximum reproducible frequency of a 96 kHz file to justify a notice that the content is not full-range.

We cannot specify with certainty the reason for this particular utilization of the available spectrum, since we weren't involved in the actual production of this album. We would speculate that it is most likely due to either analogue storage or analogue signal processing of the musical content on the album, since not all analogue equipment is capable of passing the extended bandwidth of modern, high-resolution digital audio. We provide messages such as this in the interest of transparency, and we make every attempt to label the content we provide with notes on its original format (ex. "Track 1 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM") as necessary, based on our in-house analysis.

Kind regards,
Jordan
ProStudioMasters

[Patrick Cleasby]

These guys that think they should police what the labels release. Yes they release a lot of rubbish, but just let us decide. It's their fault everything from the Rush 2015 digital series after (and partially including) Moving Pictures was butchered compared to what Sean Magee prepared.