I've never heard anything about a MC mix (only up-mixes), but wouldn't be great in say... Atmos
Beck's Morning Phase....
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Frankly I don't understand why File or FLAC are format options on discogs.
If used correctly, it can indicate they are available as a Hi-Res download, like from Qobuz etc.
or from Immersive Audio Album:
https://www.discogs.com/release/27307062-Lori-Lieberman-Ready-For-The-Storm
No earthly way this album was released in quadrophonic form and none of us heard about it. Literally won an album of the year Grammy and quadrophonic was for all intents and purposes a dead format for new commercial mixes at the time. It's only because of Rhino's quadio program that newly created quad mixes are even on the table.
There was a legit 24/96 stereo download available, I have it. Pretty sure it was WAV, not handy at the moment.
You say "legit", but actually, some tracks were upsampled to 96kHz.
It's apparently the same mastering (compression and EQing, I mean) as the CD version as well, if anyone was curious.
JediJoker
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
I bought it from HDtracks in FLAC. Most stores will allow you to choose a download file type.
I just amended the listing to show that it's a stereo release.
JediJoker
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
It's likely that the mastering was done in the analog domain, then recaptured to digital at 96kHz, so there was no "upsampling" involved. Most hi-res downloads of new albums released at the same time as a standard resolution download or CD will use the same mastering, sometimes with a little bit less peak limiting, but usually the same amount.
There's already a listing for the stereo download, so the one I linked should actually be flagged for deletion.
You can look at the hyperlink, but my impression from the article was that there was no audio above 24 kHz, which is how you can tell it's upsampled.
JediJoker
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
If there's no content above 24kHz going out of a DAC and into an analog mastering chain, there will be very-little-to-none coming back into the ADC at the end of that chain. It doesn't mean any digital upsampling was ever applied.
When I said legit I was referring to it being offered officially not of its technical lineage. I did not know the details mentioned.
I would say these FLACs certainly sounded better than the album CD to me. Whereas the CD is rather difficult to crank up, the FLACs seemed not to suffer in the same way. I can listen to these without fatigue.
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