Bruce Springsteen Collection 1973 2012 Descargar 320 Kbps
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Any idea if these releases are different from the versions previoulsy sold on Qobuz which were pulled from sale and have now reappeared? I would prefer not to have to invest in an album again to find out - but curiosity may get the better of me!
I'd love to know about what the topic title appears to promise, i.e., the new Ludwig remasters in HD. There was a discussion I recall reading of a possible 24/96 release of these at some point. But the FLAC downloads of studio albums at brucespringsteen.net I believe are older versions, not the remasters.
The site claims the flac (and alac) downloads of the first seven albums from this set are the 2014 Plangent Process remasters. There are errors in the metadata (or the 2010 remaster of Darkness has been uploaded by mistake). But they are supposed to be from this process, except for The River, which was done by JVC digital since it was mixed digitally in 1980. But it is supposed to be new as well.
I can't find it at the moment, but there is a page on the site that gives information on what dates various items became available. When I looked a couple of days ago, the album downloads were shown as having been available at the site since early in 2014. To me it would be very strange if files corresponding to CDs that were just released within the past few weeks would have been made available online nearly a year ago.
The site with available downloads wasn't available until Monday (most likely Monday afternoon as I looked for these 24bit downloads earlier in the day and ended up buying some from qobuz.) Here is the article from backstreets.com about the site launch: Backstreets.com: Higher and Higher
Well I purchased the Greetings... album in 24/44.1 tonight and the DR numbers look like this - . Interestingly, the differences in the DR numbers are so small as to render the files identical to the Qobuz files (although I am happy to be told otherwise if you folks think I am wrong - the DR Database numbers for the Qobuz version of the album can be found at Album details - Dynamic Range Database.
I may well be wrong, but my understanding currently is that the Greetings, Born To Run and Born In The USA releases on Qobuz are the same as the ones on Bruce's own site (i.e. the 2014 remasters). I find it very interesting that Qobuz had them so much earlier than Bruce himself. Very unusual!
As you can see from the graphs and DR logs below (my old CD and the new hi-res), the hi-res does seem to be legit hi-res. Acc'd to this site the transfer process was in at least 24/96 and some VC done.
I'd guess that if Bob Ludwig did a transfer of the analog master to hi-res in the last year he'd do it in at least 24/96. So I'm thinking that's what this actually is. If it's actually 24/48 and turned into 24/96 by the label/distributor, that's a shame - more for possible misrepresentation than anything else.
The new version seems to be slightly volume compressed acc'd to DR logs, but it doesn't sound compressed to me (nor do the two songs I graphed look severely volume compressed). IMO, the hi-res sounds great, better than my LP or old CD. Tighter, clearer, less "bloated" sound.
BTW, came across Backstreets.com: Bob Ludwig on 'Bruce Springsteen: The Album Collection Vol. 1 1973-1984' interview with Bob Ludwig on the remasters series. He confirms that the remasters were done from analog in hi-res, and that the remastering included some volume compression.
These new remasters are great. But I must say I am VERY disappointed they are being released in 24/96 a mere ten days after being released in 24/44 on Bruce's own site. Doesn't see to be very customer friendly and not good business practice.
The folks at HDTracks have done a great job on this one: it is terrific that we can get the full-resolution remasters. I see that they now also have Born To Run in 24/96. I am relieved and pleased that I believed the rumour that the 24/96 would be released and held off buying the remasters until these 24/96 released.
The record industry...probably a different contract with different royalties for the 44.1 vs the 96. It might also be a marketing decision: give the audiophile hi-res to sites like HDT, and keep the "lesser" versions for release at other outlets.
As far as Qobuz, it may be something to do with the Euro market, or it may be that Qobuz will soon have the 96. It won't be the first time that we've seen different release dates for the different versions of an album in the EU vs. the USA.
they should give us the resolution that the mastering was done at. we don't need this "hotchpotch" of resolutions. if they remastered these albums at 96kHz, to give the consumers downsampled 44.1kHz is a fraud in my book. and the opposite - if they remastered at 44.1kHz, but upsampled to 96kHz, it's cheating...
Though I already bought and enjoy two of the new releases at 24/44.1, I'll likely buy at least one again in 24/96. I don't take offense - there were, as Boris says, strong rumors of a 24/96 release, so it's my own impatience that's to blame.
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