Blu ray Audio - aka Pure Audio - anyone tried it ?

[TALON1973]

just wondered if anyone has tried blu ray audio .... also known as Pure Audio ?

Having bought a few 96/24 downloads of hdtracks over the last few years I thought i'd try the disc based versions.

Atm ive got 3

Lionel Richie - can't Slow Down
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Queen - A Night At The Opera

Now ive got the first 2 already digitally , but I wanted to see if the disc versions were any good ....fairly impressed , with the Queen one being slightly weaker than the other 2 . LR is stunning tho.

Anyone else got an opinion on this format , or looking to try it ?

 

[TALON1973]

more or less but in this instance it will work on "most" blu ray players , older models have problems so i've read.

I did the whole dvd-audio / sacd thing myself. But this being on a single format has potential ....if the studios can push new acts onto it.

 

[TALON1973]

You can definitely hear the different layers of music and better music separation . I brought my friend over the other night to let him listen and he's a music buff , although he hasn't had any good gear in years. Even he was doing "omg" and smiling away listening the tracks he never realised could sound so good.

Its a crying shame so many people have no clue how much rubbish we are getting

 

[TALON1973]

Lol , i'll let my ears decide thanks

while my set-up isn't really hi-end , it isn't cheap either :-

Arcam bdp300 blu ray player
Arcam irdac
Graham slee srg11 headphone amp
Sennheiser hd700 headphones

The difference between my cd copies and pure blu ray audio version is massive. But older music seems to show upi the differences more

 

[TALON1973]

Ok an opinion, waste of time, no market for it. “Audiophiles” won’t go down the BD player route for Hi End audio, no need we can already download 24/192 files or DSD files… then use current “Audiophile” grade streamers and DAC’s… Why use a mechanical spinning medium for digital when data transfer is already in place.
Mass market buys BD players from Asda …. Plus won’t have a system to make use of greater amounts of data.
It’s 10 years too late……. DTS Master Audio of concerts and live performances with pictures is perfectly adequate........ Then most will get played through a sound bar !!!

Well I bought 3 and have 2 of them already as 24/96 downloads . For me the Disc based version sounds better . So either the site I got them from ( hdtracks ) has inferior downloads of for some reason playing them through my set-up via disc is better .

 

[TALON1973]

Same masters ? (We don't know.... but possible isn't..if different people did them)
Played through same DAC in your system ?
HD tracks do sometimes upsampled 16bit it's been claimed.

Yep same equipment is being used for music . The ONLY difference is one is disc based , the other digital download.

In fact the only thing I still havn't tried yet is how good the onboard dac is of my dbp300 against my irdac