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Reference Recordings only doing hybrid cd/sacd now, sad I'm gone.


This was a letter I sent to them, after their reply that they are no longer doing 24/96 hdcd PCM only CD's, just combined hybrid cd/sacd

" Hi Marcia, I’m afraid to say that will be it for me buying RR recordings then, if they are all going to be hybrid. As I don’t know why but all hybrids not just yours, just don’t seem to have the same quality of sound on the CD layer to me When played on my Esoteric cd only transport.   Please let me know if things change back the way it was"


Cheers George
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bdp24
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George, you don't care for SACD? Esoteric makes some "pretty good" (;-) machines that will play them (and standard CD's).
oldears
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Maybe your laser needs some adjustment. Make a copy of the CD layer on the RR disc using your computer to CD media and see how it reads.
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georgehifi OP
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SACD is DSD with a flag, I’m an R2R Multibit man, I’ll leave it at that.
And no the laser is fine.

Cheers George
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mahler123
Does RR issue downloads?
Yes.
https://referencerecordings.com/format/downloads/

Cheers George
mahler123
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If you feel that strongly about I would switch to downloads for RR.  I just remembered that I purchased the Opera Dances disc as a download from HD Tracks and it is terrific
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