Friends,
If anyone can shed some light on this, it's the people in this forum. I'm hoping someone would be willing to listen one of the tracks below and let me know what's happening.
Bach Orchestral Suite Number Two, Mvt. 1 "Overture"
-English Concert (Archiv label)
-Concerto Köln (Berlin Classics label)
(These were the first two items that appeared under "albums" in my search for "Bach Orchestral Suites")
Yesterday I wanted to listen to Bach Orchestral Suites, and looked for a recording on Amazon Music (the non-HD version). I started with the Concerto Köln recording of Orchestral Suite number 2 and when the Overture played what I heard was not right. There was this, I don't know how to describe it, tearing sound? in the background. It was sort of metallic and not subtle. The English Concert recording was similar.
Without boring everyone with a blow-by-blow procedural account of my troubleshooting, it appears this is an issue with Amazon, but not one I have encountered before. Over the past couple of days I have compared recordings on Amazon Music to recordings on YouTube and to CDs I own. I continue to encounter the same type of problem, but not on every recording. For example Melody Gardot "The Absence" seems fine to me, as does Norah Jones "Day Breaks." I am not one of those people who claims to hear a difference between 320kbps MP3 and high res audio (I failed the test that NPR had on their website a few years ago). I've also listened to a lot of music on Amazon over the past couple of years (so I have a baseline) and this is new to me.
My questions then: Has anyone else here noticed this on music you listen to? Would subscribing to Amazon HD make a difference? What is it that I am hearing exactly?
Many Thanks!
If anyone can shed some light on this, it's the people in this forum. I'm hoping someone would be willing to listen one of the tracks below and let me know what's happening.
Bach Orchestral Suite Number Two, Mvt. 1 "Overture"
-English Concert (Archiv label)
-Concerto Köln (Berlin Classics label)
(These were the first two items that appeared under "albums" in my search for "Bach Orchestral Suites")
Yesterday I wanted to listen to Bach Orchestral Suites, and looked for a recording on Amazon Music (the non-HD version). I started with the Concerto Köln recording of Orchestral Suite number 2 and when the Overture played what I heard was not right. There was this, I don't know how to describe it, tearing sound? in the background. It was sort of metallic and not subtle. The English Concert recording was similar.
Without boring everyone with a blow-by-blow procedural account of my troubleshooting, it appears this is an issue with Amazon, but not one I have encountered before. Over the past couple of days I have compared recordings on Amazon Music to recordings on YouTube and to CDs I own. I continue to encounter the same type of problem, but not on every recording. For example Melody Gardot "The Absence" seems fine to me, as does Norah Jones "Day Breaks." I am not one of those people who claims to hear a difference between 320kbps MP3 and high res audio (I failed the test that NPR had on their website a few years ago). I've also listened to a lot of music on Amazon over the past couple of years (so I have a baseline) and this is new to me.
My questions then: Has anyone else here noticed this on music you listen to? Would subscribing to Amazon HD make a difference? What is it that I am hearing exactly?
Many Thanks!