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http://stereophile.com/news/naxos_blu-ray_breakthrough/
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Klaus Heymann, founder and guiding light of Naxos, explains that although this one-off project came his way from McGill ready-made, Naxos "will definitely get into Blu-ray surround, sooner rather than later." Over the last few years Naxos has built up a library of hundreds of titles in surround-sound, most of them recorded at 20/44.1 or 24/44.1. Except for a smattering of SACD and DVD-Audio releases, which were discontinued due to poor sales, these surround masters have seen the light of day only as two-channel, 16-bit/44.1kHz "Red Book" CDs.
Naxos also plans to move to lossless downloads of surround-sound recordings, or "something better," in what Heymann calls "due course." What's not yet clear is how many future Naxos Blu-ray releases and lossless surround downloads will actually contain hi-rez audio, or if any of them will approach the 176.4 and 192kHz sampling rates now available on DVD-Rs from Reference, Chesky, and MA Recordings. Blue Coast Records, too, is contemplating augmenting their current catalog of 100 or so 24/96 downloads with downloads at sampling rates of 176.4 or 192kHz.
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Klaus Heymann, founder and guiding light of Naxos, explains that although this one-off project came his way from McGill ready-made, Naxos "will definitely get into Blu-ray surround, sooner rather than later." Over the last few years Naxos has built up a library of hundreds of titles in surround-sound, most of them recorded at 20/44.1 or 24/44.1. Except for a smattering of SACD and DVD-Audio releases, which were discontinued due to poor sales, these surround masters have seen the light of day only as two-channel, 16-bit/44.1kHz "Red Book" CDs.
Naxos also plans to move to lossless downloads of surround-sound recordings, or "something better," in what Heymann calls "due course." What's not yet clear is how many future Naxos Blu-ray releases and lossless surround downloads will actually contain hi-rez audio, or if any of them will approach the 176.4 and 192kHz sampling rates now available on DVD-Rs from Reference, Chesky, and MA Recordings. Blue Coast Records, too, is contemplating augmenting their current catalog of 100 or so 24/96 downloads with downloads at sampling rates of 176.4 or 192kHz.
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