HDCD compatible?

My cdp doesnt play HDCD but my Rotel pro decodes it, but I use my tube pre for music so the benefit of HDCD is negated by the Rotel not up to par with my Sonic Frontiers pre, I do check for HDCD and I have discs not marked wich the Rotel displays they are infact HDCD.

Actually there were quite a number of HDCD encoded CD's released, some of which didn't stamp the HDCD logo on the jackets.

Unsound, how does one find this information if it's not on the disc? Is there a code, a numeric prefix? A flag? A color? Or is it just random luck? I'd buy more cds if I could pull the gems from the junk.

When one inserts an HDCD encoded disk into an appropriate player, an HDCD light glows on the player. I guess that doesn't help much if you aren't already in the know, sorry. There used to be a website that listed most HDCD titles including some that weren't labeled as such. I wish I could remember the URL, there's a good chance it doesn't exist anymore. It might have disappeared around the same time that Microsoft bought HDCD.

Check out www.hifimusic.se/hdcd/ Click the icon for the English language version, then click on 'The Database' to get an alphabetical listing of HDCD titles.

It should be mentioned that there are new recordings continually being released in HDCD. One reason is that many artists are not crazy about digital to begin with, and want the very best (Redbook playable) rendering of their performances.

And I'm guessing the lack of the HDCD identifier on albums will be corrected now Microsoft is handling things ;--)

Third, the HDCD process is improved, and Keith Johnson (the co-inventor of HDCD) has ressurected Reference Recordings, which has a large catalog of new releases using the ugraded process.

www.referencerecordings.com
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