Quote Originally Posted by DSJR View Post
The Ella and Louis tracks sound bloody marvellous on standard CD, especially with large decent speakers to reproduce the range. The old tape's noise floor is barely greater than 13 bit though I suspect, so if the hi-res file sounds better than the red book one, there may be another reason for all I know?
Ah. I don't have the CD for comparison. May be it sounds exactly the same...!
I have the 'plays wc handy' cd, which is impressive. Amazing how great those old recordings sound next to many modern efforts.