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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    Well, I need to go to bed. I suspect the files I have aren't the same as what Bruce has. In addition to the different shaped curves, his top out at -70dB, which seems to be about the mid-point for mine. To test this, I converted the first track to wav using XLD. Since wav has no metadata, it...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    So even if we forget about the different baselines, there is something qualitatively different between the shapes of the curves you are displaying and the ones I am finding, unlike all the tracks from Remain in Light, which look absolutely fine, and qualitatively very similar to what you are...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    Here is the link: https://www.hdtracks.com/index.php?file=catalogdetail&valbum_code=HD603497941063 Here is the md5sum of the first file: 5996f6362ff175042a776040fe8a9a14 1-Love for Sale.flac Here is a 20% off promo code: 20offHDtracks08
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    You have to buy the whole album I am afraid. I can put the first track on a password-protected server and email you the password.
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    If you go down a bit further, I found the original 96kHz file of Lush Life, and posted that, which I also posted in this thread (i.e., the negative control).
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    OK, but is it anything apart from noise? The part with a gradually increasing slope between ~27kHz and 48kHz is unlikely to be audio, so the noise cutoff, generously, looks to be at -120dB, which is consistent with the plot on the left, (if you were to fit a monotonically decreasing line to the...
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    That's what I thought at first, too, but I think it is just that the normalization is different on the vertical axis (His ranges from -60dB to -150, and mine ranges from -18db to -90db). In any case, as you point out, the main feature is the abrupt change of slope at ~19-22kHz. That striking...
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    Howdie

    Thanks. Looks like a great resource, grounded in reality. Not sure how I missed it.
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    OK: When I attach it, it shrinks the image, so here is the original:
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    Howdie

    I guess I am best known here as an Audacity Cowboy, :rolleyes: , but when not participating in the Great Audacity Cattle roundups, I am but a humble scientist making an attempt to come to grips with digital audio.
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    When is Hi-Res not really Hi-Res?

    Well, I am not sure how you want the blank filled in, although I can guess. However, it would extremely helpful to understand what I might be doing wrong. To get some sort of handle on what I am observing, I have also included spectral plots from a positive control (Talking Heads, Remain in...
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