I got into cd's a little late but eventually discovered HDCD
more or less by accident...I noticed Joni Mitchell,Blue I
think,sounded pretty good by comparison to most other cd's in my small collection,and noticed also the HDCD logo on the back.This led me to look for that logo when I bought cd's,
as someone else mentioned ..Grateful Dead/Dicks Picks,other
Joni Mitchel,etc..So I replaced my pretty much brand new Yamaha cdp with a Harman kardon 8380/HDCD.Not hi-end but an
upgrade to my ears.I have an older Leonard Cohen cd,Songs of
Leonard Cohen,not HDCD, that was pretty rough on the Yamaha but really smoothed out on the HK so its positive affect on non-HDCD
cd's was a little gravy.Anyway I eventually hooked a Micromega Mydac into the system and didn't
really think of the HDCD one way or the other until somewhere along the
line I wondered if it was being passed along.Did alot of digging
and the consensus,though not unanimous,was that unless the external dac was HDCD,then the HDCD from the Harman -Kardon was
negated.At first I was bummed but the Mydac was a clear
improvement to my ears so I got over it.But no, the story is not over..I saw a Heed Obelisk DT transport here on Agon which reads HDCD,so it
caught my eye,but I am now confused again about HDCD and how and
where it gets de-coded.I just emailed Heed Audio to see if they could
clear this up for me.I came across this thread while looking up
HDCD and because it was the most recent posting I figured I'd wake
up ala RIP Van Winkle and see if anyone is still interested.
And apologies for the long wind of this but I tried to keep it as
short as possible.The long version is available upon request.
