clicking here<\/a>. Bob is a well-known recording and mastering engineer based in Florida. I know him and have a great deal of respect for his technical and aesthetic prowess. He’s also the author of a number of books on mastering and audio.<\/p>\nAt about 48 minutes into the program, Bob mentions the “High-Res Mafia”. I have to be honest and admit that I hadn’t heard anyone describe a group of people involved with high-resolution audio as the “mafia”. My own thoughts went immediately to the myths and falsehoods being pushed by the CTA Audio Board, the DEG, NARAS, and the record labels…maybe they’re the mafia Bob was referring to. They certainly qualify as a group pushing a troubling and patently dishonest agenda about what is and what isn’t high-resolution audio and music. But they weren’t the targets of Bob’s discussion.<\/p>\n
He’s upset at individuals that want to hold to a set of specifications in addition to using their ears to judge “so-called” high-res music. He specifically mentions HDtracks. Apparently, he has submitted a number of productions that he has mastered to them and was rejected because the HDtracks QC people…aka the “hi-res mafia”…judged the recordings as unworthy because they were sourced from standard resolution, 44.1 kHz digital masters. It’s pretty confusing. He talks on the show about doing all of his work at 96 kHz\/24-bits but then gets rejected because the spectra show the submissions lacking any information about 22.050 kHz.<\/p>\n
I should write to him and ask for some clarification. In my mind, if a recording drops off sharply at 22 kHz, then it’s not high-resolution no matter what sampling rate was used. It may sound terrific and warm and full of low level detail…but that just a great sounding standard def recording.<\/p>\n
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