When it's a Berliner Philharmoniker so-called 48/24, that's when.
I recently ordered the new Harnoncourt 'live' Schubert Symphonies, etc. set from Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings. What you get is 8 CDs, 1 Blu-ray, a 7 day 'voucher' for their concert streaming service, and download code for what they describe as "high resolution audio files of the entire album (24-bit / 48 kHz)". However, when you read the small print at the back of the handsomely presented hard-back booklet notes, you find this, "Recorded in 24-bit / 44.1kHz", so the downloads and Blu-ray audio are in fact up-sampled 44.1 kHz recordings, albeit with 24 bit quantization. Not quite so high a resolution, and necessarily replete with (hopefully inaudible) interpolation artifacts. Ho-hum.
Oh, and I also paid the extra for tracked and insured delivery. No tracking was provided and the parcel was left on my front doorstep by Parcel Farce for any opportunist thief to make off with. Fortunately I got there first, albeit at around 8pm when I returned from work.
I recently ordered the new Harnoncourt 'live' Schubert Symphonies, etc. set from Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings. What you get is 8 CDs, 1 Blu-ray, a 7 day 'voucher' for their concert streaming service, and download code for what they describe as "high resolution audio files of the entire album (24-bit / 48 kHz)". However, when you read the small print at the back of the handsomely presented hard-back booklet notes, you find this, "Recorded in 24-bit / 44.1kHz", so the downloads and Blu-ray audio are in fact up-sampled 44.1 kHz recordings, albeit with 24 bit quantization. Not quite so high a resolution, and necessarily replete with (hopefully inaudible) interpolation artifacts. Ho-hum.
Oh, and I also paid the extra for tracked and insured delivery. No tracking was provided and the parcel was left on my front doorstep by Parcel Farce for any opportunist thief to make off with. Fortunately I got there first, albeit at around 8pm when I returned from work.
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