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Originally Posted by bitontheslide
if the original audio source is 16 bit, converting to 24 bit would simply increase the noise floor. You can down convert 24 to 16 bit, but you cannot get higher quality by up converting from a lower sampled source. Its the equivalent of zooming in on a digital picture. You can make it bigger but it looks ****
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I think arista is confused between the better sound being due to the discs themselves, when it's actually that a lot of artists/record companies are releasing full remasters of their original material
from the original studio audio tracks which is where the extra fidelity is coming from; stuff that was originally lost when those tracks were mastered for release. As you say once it's lost it's gone ... the data no longer exists, it's like DVD upscaling, you can smooth out the rough edges but it's never going to be a sharp image. Upscaled old movies look fuzzy. But you also get releases of old movies that are completely remastered from the original physical film reels and those can be true HD (and it's quite fascinating to see old 80's movies looking like they could have been filmed yesterday...)