Barbaresco
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Her er et urovekkende sitat jeg fant inne på et Logitech-forum (dette ser ikke bra ut, selv om det er uhørbart for andre enn flaggermus, kopi skal være kopi, ikke med noe kluss på):
One word of warning for major labels that belong to Universal Group.
I have found on few downloads from Harmonia Mundi that the flac files are
altered by watermarking. If you open a flac file in an audio spectrum
viewer (for example Audigy), you would see a thick bar of frequencies at
around 19.5 kHz. I could not hear the inserted frequencies, also did not
have CD's to compare, but they are clearly manipulating the files. The
suspicion is not on qobuz manipulating the files but rather on Universal
when selling to resellers.
Particular download I'm referring to is Schubert Quintet with Arcanto
Quartet. Schubert: String Quintet Op. 163 | Franz Schubert par Arcanto Quartett - Télécharger et écouter l'album
Flac dowlnoads are advertised as an exact copy of CD, so for me this has
disqualified UG flac downloads and the resellers. Back to CD ripping if
I need flac.
This might not be important to you, but I think we all should be aware
that this file manipulation happens.
One word of warning for major labels that belong to Universal Group.
I have found on few downloads from Harmonia Mundi that the flac files are
altered by watermarking. If you open a flac file in an audio spectrum
viewer (for example Audigy), you would see a thick bar of frequencies at
around 19.5 kHz. I could not hear the inserted frequencies, also did not
have CD's to compare, but they are clearly manipulating the files. The
suspicion is not on qobuz manipulating the files but rather on Universal
when selling to resellers.
Particular download I'm referring to is Schubert Quintet with Arcanto
Quartet. Schubert: String Quintet Op. 163 | Franz Schubert par Arcanto Quartett - Télécharger et écouter l'album
Flac dowlnoads are advertised as an exact copy of CD, so for me this has
disqualified UG flac downloads and the resellers. Back to CD ripping if
I need flac.
This might not be important to you, but I think we all should be aware
that this file manipulation happens.