[EDIT: Although I have not received it yet, on 26th Jan, Technics Tracks offered me another album to choose free. I chose one. Thirteen days later and still nothing from Technics Tracks. Therefor it;s not coming. This is since posting my warning about this purchase. )
After the last copy of What Hi-Fi recommended Technics Tracks, I thought about buying from them for weeks. I wanted this: https://tracks.technics.com/GB/releases/4041517
Beethoven's Symphonies 1-9, 96KHz 24bit. I figured it will save me the hassle of buying all the individual CDs and storing and ripping them. I have just made this purchase. However I will have to buy the CDs, store them, and rip them as well.
The reason why this purchase turned out to be a rip-off, is all the symphonies are in mono. The sound qaulity is appaling. I just blew £17 and I know I will not get my money back. On top of that I had to register an account with them and they now hold my bank details. I do not feel my bank details are safe with a company that just stung me.
Anyway let it be warning.
If anyone is thinking of advising, 'why not listen to the samples on the store page?'. Simple answer, they have disabled the samples on this store item.
I am sure it is a legal requirement to display if music is in mono. If it actually is in stereo, then I have a theory for why it sounds so bad. I own Beethoven's 5th Symphony on CD, from a collection called The Great Composers. It was a set of CDs accompanying a set of magazines called The Great Composers. The version that I just bought from Technics Tracks sounds identical to that CD copy. I am sure that CD copy is in mono, or just a really poor recording. I think for Technics Tracks to have produced a 96KHz version, it must be an upsample. Or they literally got some microphones and recorded the CD playing.
After the last copy of What Hi-Fi recommended Technics Tracks, I thought about buying from them for weeks. I wanted this: https://tracks.technics.com/GB/releases/4041517
Beethoven's Symphonies 1-9, 96KHz 24bit. I figured it will save me the hassle of buying all the individual CDs and storing and ripping them. I have just made this purchase. However I will have to buy the CDs, store them, and rip them as well.
The reason why this purchase turned out to be a rip-off, is all the symphonies are in mono. The sound qaulity is appaling. I just blew £17 and I know I will not get my money back. On top of that I had to register an account with them and they now hold my bank details. I do not feel my bank details are safe with a company that just stung me.
Anyway let it be warning.
If anyone is thinking of advising, 'why not listen to the samples on the store page?'. Simple answer, they have disabled the samples on this store item.
I am sure it is a legal requirement to display if music is in mono. If it actually is in stereo, then I have a theory for why it sounds so bad. I own Beethoven's 5th Symphony on CD, from a collection called The Great Composers. It was a set of CDs accompanying a set of magazines called The Great Composers. The version that I just bought from Technics Tracks sounds identical to that CD copy. I am sure that CD copy is in mono, or just a really poor recording. I think for Technics Tracks to have produced a 96KHz version, it must be an upsample. Or they literally got some microphones and recorded the CD playing.