Reference Recordings "WAV" files....

Check out the Stereophile CES Show coverage, there's a piece on it.

That is interesting. Only a matter of time before more producers offer higher and higher rez recordings for download. Equipment makers should embrace PC-based audio, because as bit depths and sample rates increase, we'll need to keep upgrading our DACs to keep up. The RR files are 24-bit/176.4KHz. Looks like my 96KHz Meitner just became obsolete...

Linn now offers hi rez downloads. I've only bought there Messiah so far, but it's great.

Dave

Bigamp,how will you play these files?

You may be able to load the raw WAV files to a PC and then master a DAD (LPCM) with Disc Welder. At least this is what I am planning on doing so I can spin them on my universal player (any DVD player can read DAD). I hope a regular DVD-R will have enough capacity for uncompressed files of the entire album at 176.4/24. Otherwise 2 DVD-Rs would be necessary. You can always use MLP encoder, but that thing is quite expensive software.

Regards,
Alex