24 bit cd remasters???

matengawhat

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strange question, i thought you couldn't burn 24 bit files to cd to play in a normal cd player but keep seeing 24 bit remastered albums does this just mean they went back to the original masters but you still end up with a 16 bit audio track on the final cd? but weren't the original version of the album mastered from the same recordings so is it just marketing hype to confuse?
 

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Yep, the CD will have to be 'Redbook' standard, so 16 bit. The 24 bit could refer to the resolution used when digitising analogue master tapes and going into the mixing desk, but it would have to be transcoded to 16bit for CD
 

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matengawhat said:
strange question, i thought you couldn't burn 24 bit files to cd to play in a normal cd player but keep seeing 24 bit remastered albums does this just mean they went back to the original masters but you still end up with a 16 bit audio track on the final cd? but weren't the original version of the album mastered from the same recordings so is it just marketing hype to confuse?

Pretty much. 24bit has been picked up on as a new 'audiophile' buzzword. Throwing '24bit' into the description of an album implies better quality, but the quality is down to the original recording or mastering. You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear and the 24bit treatment will not magically transform any recording, merely clean it up a little.
 

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Yes.

A CD re-master can be better (or worse) than the original (analogue or digital) release but it's got little to do with the number of bits, rather the skill of the engineer and whether or not the record company (or in rare cases, the artist) ordered them to optimize the mastering for car stereos/iPods or hi-end hi-fi.
 

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