[akart]

Hi Everyone,
 
Is there a listing somewhere on this forum as to what are the sites where one can download or buy audiophile tracks? I am listing 2 that I know here:
 
1. www.hdtracks.com
2. www.referencerecordings.com

 

[mcmurray]

soundcloud.com
 
128k mp3 preview, and lossless downloads, not to mention everything is free.

 

[winma]

I have heard about emusic.com 
Some people seem to like it...

 

[Proglover]

nice thread, subscribing...

 

[Uncle Erik]

archive.org

Free and legal!

 

[akart]

Thanks! This looks like good stuff. And I love live recordings.
 
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archive.org

Free and legal!

 

[Asr]

LinnRecords.com and AIXRecords.com have hi-res/audiophile music too.
 
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I have heard about emusic.com  Some people seem to like it...

eMusic is not an "audiophile music site".

 

[mcmurray]

bandcamp.com
 
I hope they make it big and bury itunes.

 

[DoubleB123]

Thanks a lot for posting these. I only have a pair of Creative Aurvana Live's, but the samples sound so good through them. Usually I just listen to mp3's, but these sound a lot better.

 

[yifu]

Free 24bit/96khz music downloads.
http://www.2l.no/hires/index.html
And also google binaural recordings as they are great for headphone testing. The ultrasone demo would be a good intro. Too lazy to link sorry.

 

[hyperloop]

Thank you so much for the recommendations, I will check them out one by one...
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[wnmnkh]

Let's see...
 
Dacapo : http://www.dacapo-records.dk/en/
 
Naim : http://www.naimlabel.com/
 
Gimell http://www.gimell.com/
 
All of them are classical focused.
 
With Linn, the webpages designs are similar because they use same e-commerce engine (CC tech), lol.
 
And, recently I found out Deutsche Grammophon (with some Decca and old Philips included) has mp3/flac store : http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/
 
 
Remind you, the files from these folks are not properly tagged (missing album art, artists, CD #, track etc) so you will have to use your trusty mp3tag to tag the files again.
 
 
P.S : you can find Naxos from hdtrack,  which is already mentioned in first post.

 

[aroldan]

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[wnmnkh]

I found out Passionato, yet another site dedicated to Classicial, contains majority of classical labels (Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, and so on). I believe this site has the biggest catalog for Classical music in CD quality (not MP3).
 
Site : http://www.passionato.com/
 
No high-definition (24bit) though.
 
 
 
Also, I found out a site that has tons of records from BIS records including some rare ones (with some 24bit ones)
 
http://www.eclassical.com/
 
 
At least, it seems, Classical labels finally caught up what was severely lacking in digital music download. Now I wonder when we ever will be able to download Beatles in 16bit/44.1 (let alone 24bit) in legal ways.