Hi All, I recently got myself some proper headphones and DAC but now I realise I don’t have much high quality music , my collection is mostly flac but only very few higher than 48k. So where do you get your music? does it even matter beyond that?
Oh I gotchu fam
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7digital - https://us.7digital.com - It’s fine, UI is a bit wonky, selection is meh, customer support has always been great - Quality wavers between mp3 and flac, 24 is available in most places
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HDTracks - https://www.hdtracks.com/ - Much better selection and UI, downloading is a bit weird. Nice middle mix - Most is 24 bit flac but some drops off
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ProStudioMasters - https://www.prostudiomasters.com - Great Selection, requires their download manager but otherwise it’s fine. Very pricey though, but probably best quality you’ll find. Most is 24bit flac.
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The Nyquist theorem states that the highest frequency that can be replicated in a digital signal is half the signal’s sample rate.
Now if you have a 48kHz the highest frequency that can be replicated is 24kHz. Human hearing is known to go up to around 20kHz sometimes a little more, but over your lifetime the top end gets worse. So unless you’re trying to play music higher fidelity music for your pet (cat, dog, rodent, or horse) you don’t need higher sample rate music.
Thanks for the good comments and suggestions everyone, i mostly use bandcamp but had forgotten 7digital existed
well i tried… seems that 7digital will not let you buy from them anymore if they don’t have a shop for your country “If you are currently located in a country that doesn’t have a local store you will unfortunately be unable to purchases from 7digital.” why does this have to be so hard…
