Quote Originally Posted by superpanavision70mm
Ok, to avoid personal attacks I'll just make a statement that certain individuals that posted in this thread can't see the forest through the trees. I am done guarding my position on this matter, which to me is a dead end. Is there a conclusion? Not really aside from the fact that we have gone round and round about this with nothing to show other than a few pages of thread. Is it safe to say that the majority of the people that come to this forum would argue that HDCD's are preferred over CD? Maybe, maybe not. I, for one, and I know that I am not the ONLY one who knows that when I do see the HDCD logo...I can expect a certain level of quality not always associated with CD. I know the same thing going into something that has the DTS logo, MLP logo, SACD logo etc. This is not to say that all of them are fantastic. Some of them are so-so, but still...probably ahead of something similarly mastered. Do all DTS soundtracks sound incredible? Certainly not. Do all HDCD's sound incredible? Certainly not. However, as a member of the free world in which I live...I'll take those odds anyday considering I have had far too many great experiences versus not-so-good. I don't care what the scientitic proof states of whether it's compared to the original master or if my HDCD sounds worse than if Kenny Wayne Shepherd was in my living room playing live for me. I don't always need a reference point nor do I always care to have one. If I pop in STAR TREK NEMESIS in DTS and it sounds great (which it does btw) I clearly am not sitting there wondering if it sounds as good as it does in the movie theater because they are two different things. I am also not wondering if it sounds exactly like what the sound engineers and recording mixers had in mind precisely. My only concern is whether it sounds great in my living space...it meets my standards of excellence and that's that. End-o-discussion.
So based on what you say here you cannot really bring a HDCD vs CD argument to this, or any forum. If it all about your personal standards and your living space (of which none of us share) there can be no global argument either way. Opinions cannot really be argued, right?