Remastered CDs, HDCDs, SACDs

Thanks for the info.  I like a lot but not all remixed and remastered CDs.  Pink Floyd’s Animals and Deep Purple’s Machine Head come to mind. I Like some but not all of the Steve Wilson Jethro Tull and Yes remixes.  I find the sound quality streaming Qobuz with my Innuos Zen MK3 streamer and Holo Audio Cyan 2 DAC rivals that of CDs.  There’s a lot of great music available online and on CDs.  It’s a great time to be listening to music on quality equipment.  

I'm pretty much totally agnostic as to the provenance of recordings these days. Streams, cd rips, 16/44, up sampling, over sampling, whatever. It's all in how well the original mastering/mixing/engineering/production was done, can't make a silk purse out a sow's ear. 

@sns 

Well said.

My favorite part of remastered and brought up to 24/192 is that especially for rock music which is bass heavy, they can tweak the bass (which vinyl can't do as well for technical reasons), so it sounds truer to how the bands sounded in concert.  

I usually buy from Qobuz because if you have their a specific tier subscription, the high-def music becomes cheaper than purchasing the 16/44.    Many of the new artists don't even issue standard CD's these days because everyone listens on Spotify, and Qobuz has them in at least 24/96.   I also use HDTracks if they have something Qobuz doesn't or they have it cheaper.

Agreed that the Steven Wilson remixes are a mixed bag. I thought he did a much better job on "Fragile" (YES) than "Close To the Edge." I feel the same way about "Aqualung" (JETHRO TULL) versus "Benefit."

The biggest surprise (most pleasant) was the job that he did on Chicago's 2nd album, which does not get mentioned very often.