Listening to the 'Harvest' Studio Master with Neil Young

[ozzzy189]

Seventh son in 24 bit! That's a rock classic i'd love to hear in hi res.

[rowlandhills]

(2011-08-18 00:49)Kubular Wrote:  I love vinyl but it really doesn't have the same kind of convenience (especially since I don't have a turntable).

I completely agreed with the sentiments expressed throughout this thread, but I have to say that the above comment did make me laugh!

[Kubular]

I'm seriously beginning to consider just saving up for a cheap one. But then I wonder if something cheaper would just leave me listening to the DS anyway...

[geletaxi]

(2011-08-18 20:30)Kubular Wrote:  I'm seriously beginning to consider just saving up for a cheap one. But then I wonder if something cheaper would just leave me listening to the DS anyway...

Cheaper than what??

[Warren]

I recall reading about 15 years ago just how passionate Neil Young was about recording quality.

Of course good music can be rerecorded again, a good performance may not have been captured at today's standards, but the good music still exists. (Interestingly I played Palladium Ensemble's An Excess of Pleasure LP last night and was gobsmacked how it sounded like a CD on a Karik.)


I wonder what the correct approach is? Show the industry execs your profits and/or margins from Linn Records and associate labels?

There clearly is a correct or workable approach. I worked for over a decade for a software company that made the OS for smart mobile phones that had cameras and accessed the internet. Our software is in over 250,000,000 mobiles. However, most people think the iPhone is the superior phone (me too, now I've got one), even though we were doing phones with that functionality half a decade before. What have Apple got right? In a word, communication, both the User Interaction of the device (to quote Apple UI designer who ended up working for the same company, "the user interface is the application") and also the Marketing to their target audience (the music execs in this case).

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Anne Frank

[geletaxi]

Well, listened to Harvest today on (creme) vinyl, don't know if I need a HD track of it... (maybe for comparison)...
Sound quality om vinyl is superb!

[popko]

Would consider to buy the Harvest DVD - Audio. Contains a stereo version in 24 bit / 96 KHz. Does anyone have experience with it on a DS? Ripping a DVD-A is rather straightforward with DVD audio extractor.

As the disc is quite rare though (and mistakingly expensive) I would appreciate to hear from someone on this forum how they would rate it.

[linnrd]

I found that the new Vinyl release of Harvest pretty much obliterated the 24/96 on my system. It was one of the more bittersweet moments of my life.

[silberruecken]

(2011-09-05 21:12)linnrd Wrote:  I found that the new Vinyl release of Harvest pretty much obliterated the 24/96 on my system. It was one of the more bittersweet moments of my life.

I´m a bit confused about the 24/96 version you talk about:
Harvest DVD Audio (Reprise Records – 9 48100-9, released 2002)
Formats:
DVD-Audio Advanced Resolution Surround (96kHz/24 Bit)
DVD-Audio Advanced Resolution Stereo (192kHz/24 Bit)
DVD-Video Compatible Dolby Digital
DTS 5.1 Surround Sound
other source:
Dolby Digital 2.0 (448Kb/s)
Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s)
dts 5.1 (1536Kb/s)
MLP 96/24 5.1
MLP 192/24 2.0

No mention of a true stereo mix in 24/96?

[linnrd]

Apologies...I meant the 24/192. I have the DVD-A in question. And...you are not the one confused, but rather...I am.