manisandher
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Yeah, good question. I've spent the last 20 minutes reading through the dBpoweramp forum link I mentioned earlier, plus a HydrogenAudio forum thread. Wow, some heavy reading, and my head is spinning, but I found two particularly interesting posts, which might cast some light on the subject -
https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showth...Best-practices&p=127272&viewfull=1#post127272
https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,79427.msg737725.html#msg737725
Yep, I agree with both of these.
If the mastering engineer went to the trouble of using a PM Model One/Two, irrespective of which HDCD processes were engaged during encoding, the sound will likely be good. I don't think I've come across a bad-sounding HDCD yet (from a purely subjective POV, of course). I listen to something like the HDCD version of Brian Ferry's Avalon, and am amazed at how good it still sounds.
Mani.