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Old 10-13-2012, 10:56 PM   #2201
Fran Guidry
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Originally Posted by serr View Post
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Why do some professionally made official recordings get hoarded and the record company only releases a reduced CD version?
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The Beatles. A couple of you may have heard of these guys.
EMI made a huge deal of remastering their whole catalog. They bragged endlessly about using Prism converters and transferring the tapes at 24 bit 192k. Why haven't they released a single note?! Just lossy CD reductions to tease everyone. (Marketing 101: They want to get everyone to buy them twice. Now in reduced quality and again later when they finally liberate the masters.)
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I wouldn't be surprised if they do find suckers who'll buy the "hi res" version. What _would_ surprise me is if someone could demonstrate an audible difference between "hi res" and CD spec. As far as I've been able to determine, no one has ever demonstrated this audible difference.

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