Hi James
Thank you for the link
Not my type of music but it was only to demo the differences between 44.1 kHz and 96 kHz at 24bit
Ok after downloading the three files playing back in foobar the track in low res was worse than I expected as was track 2 and 3 why well in one answer the recording quality was a joke as was the sound flat and gray sounding so went no further with the tracks
Linn music are doing free downloads one a day for the next 25 day
http://christmas.linn.co.uk/
So downloaded the track played in foobar again the recording quality was so bad for a 24 bit 98 kHz file from linn was unacceptable again flat and gray sounding gave this a miss as well
Went on to find some live jazz 24bit 96 kHz files
This was no better But had a very in the room sound but it was the audience the band was in the back ground playing out of time and badly milked up drums with Cymbal sounds that would cut you in half hit the stop button on this track
I found two more tracks one a female jazz vocal track the other a jazz blues
The female vocal track was ok but nothing special a bigger sound perhaps than standard 44.1 kHz CD
The blues jazz track was similar in that it was a bigger sound but not better and contend some hiss and jitter maybe a bad download
Well what do I think of this so far well the recording quality is my first concern especially from the likes of linn? Second was the noise on the jazz tracks and the flat gray sound from all tracks in foobar I did play the jazz tracks in VLC media player which sounded sweeter but not better
I have never really liked computer audio and unless I can fine some quality recorded downloads of the music I like I won't be bothering with it at this time
I will be staying with the vinyl and standard CD and the blue ray DVD all have a much more involving sound