[mgalusha]

I bought The Hot Spot soundtrack a little while ago from Acoustic Sounds, DSD64 version. Seems very nice on my work desktop Teac UD-501/Slagelformer AVC/Mackie MR5.

Agree on Cookie's stuff, I've bought a few but they all been when there was a discount, pricey but excellent.

[ted_b]

Mike, you bought the download or the SACD?  If download, how does it come..DSF or DFF?

[mgalusha]

Mike, you bought the download or the SACD?  If download, how does it come..DSF or DFF?

Download, DSF and with decent tagging and images. The only change I made was to add the track number.

[ted_b]

Nice!  I am helping Jared Sacks and Channel Classics get their whole catalog (stereo and multichannel) to DSF for a new sister DSD download.  I am doing the tags.  Tom (tailspn) is doing the rendering, etc.  I love that folks are embracing DSF and its metadata. 

[dminches]

I am hoping that now that there is competition from 2 big on line stores for hi res downloads the prices will start to fall.  $25 is way too high given that there is no physical product.

[RadioWonder]

Good point,and then you to have at least one back-up copy on another HD or a NAS System... 

[holzohr]

Hello everyone, interesting thread!

One of my favorite download site for lossless audio (also 24bit) is: http://bandcamp.com/search?q=24bit&from=corphome

For high res I know this site but probably they share the same catalog with other download sites: http://www.highresaudio.com/


Regards
Mario

[itc_spy]

http://www.theclassicalshop.net/

A good selection of 24-bit (varying kHz) and most of the Chandos SACD catalogue in hirez surround. Prices are, as usual, not great. But the music is!

[PA]

I think the Sound Liaison label should be mentioned here.
Very small selection but very good music and absolutely stunning audio quality.
These guys really know how to capture audio.
There are some free samples to be had on the site; http://www.soundliaison.com/

or you could start of with this one, highly recommended;




http://www.soundliaison.com/products-from-our-studio-masters/71-andre-heuvelman

After Silence was recorded with the musicians playing together in the same room, without headphones.The reason being that in our opinion that creates a number of musical and technical benefits....... The musicians interact much more as they would do in a concert situation...and as they are not ''separated'' by headphones the musicians are forced to create a musical balance...the need for compression to control levels is no longer necessary...we can use a minimalist microphone setup and there by reduce phase problems...since everybody is in the same room, the boxed sound which is so common in many modern recordings is absent...the sound of the room helps ''glue'' the sound of the recording. That sounds like an easy solution but bear in mind that in order for this to work:e studio has to have a good sound.....the musicians have to be very good and well prepared as it is very difficult to repair mistakes because of the ''cross talk'' between the instruments....we have to be very precise when choosing and placingthe microphones...and the puzzle of placing the musicians at the right distance to the main stereo microphone pair and at the right distance to each other is very time consuming.

[Aundudel25]

Thank you for this thread!!!    Love it!

[Falldog]

Anyone having trouble with HDTracks?

I've been using HDtracks for about year or so.  I upgraded my MAC the latest OS (Yosemite) and now HDtracks Download Manager crashes as soon as I try to open it.  I wrote to HDtracks and their answer was to refund my money.  I am stuck now... i need some new music, but I don't want to buy physical CDs anymore...no more room to store them.

Anyone having trouble with HDTracks?

[bmoura]

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[Starchild]

I'm developing an affinity for Pono Music.  They seem to have jazz that's not availalbe on HD Tracks and often at bewtter prices.

https://www.ponomusic.com/

[christo]

If you're into abstract electronic music, Uwe Schmidt aka Atom Heart/Atom™ has all the music in his deep discography, which is not currently under another agreement, remastered and available for purchase on his site as 32 bit/96 kHz downloads:
https://atom-tm.com/AAA/

Just click on the "details" link on the the right hand column.

[EricS]

I use www.prostudiomasters.com and hdtracks.com