Originally Posted by
hwume
Everything on HDtracks.com that is at 192 or 96khz is from an original master tape and transferred digitally at that resolution. There is no up-sampling at all.
I oversaw the Rick James transfer, which was done from the original half-inch stereo master - most albums from the 1950s-70s-80s are on a 1/4-inch tape; a 1/2-inch tape allows for much more depth and fidelity, especially for bass response and the stereo field. That's not to say something from the 1960s from 1/4-inch won't sound great - it will if you have a good source. But the original engineers got this one right to begin with, as did Kevin Reeves, who mastered it for HDtracks.com by doing very little to it.
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