What are the "must have" HD Tracks albums?

Mingles...I could not disagree more. The dynamics are night and day with the redbook version and the space between instruments/voice are much more clearly defined. Their is much more detail visible on the 24/96 version as well. I suppose some may be dependent on a systems ability to resolve these as I have only listened on the higher end of things but I would guess that most of the benefit would be distinguishable on any system.

I honestly believe any recording, be it classical, vintage jazz, metal, ambient, techno, minimal, rap, r+b or plain old rock and roll would benefit greatly in higher resolution playback. I'd love for my entire catalog to be high resolution! I have 100's of high rez albums and there is not a single one that does not sound stellar, especially when compared to the original.

I agree. I find digital now is coming into its own realm again as state-of-the-art techniques move out of the pro studio and down to the end consumer.

I've been on a hi res binge all day today. Updated some software and things are running better then ever regarding hi res. after breathing a sigh of relief for the upgrade working, I ment to listen for an hour or two just to confirm all was well. That was seven hours ago. Am still listening as I type. Have no idea when i'm gonna crash tonight but it's not gonna be early. At the risk of using a word that is WAY over used.....it sounds amazing!. Will leave it at that. If this stuff isn't a game changer for digi audio, I don't know what will be.

With streaming....I'm a pig in slop! =)

Great to hear Levy03!.......If you go to Enjoythemusic.com they indicate there is another 20% sale on now. I plan to pickup the Charlie Brown Christmas release....

Has anyone noticed that some of the HDTracks songs are mixed much different than the redbook version? Specifically on the Seal Best 1991 - 2004 album at the 4:32 mark of the song 'Don't Cry', the backup vocals are almost non-existent. It sounded as if I was missing a channel so at first I thought it was my equipment or my Pure Music player software. I then played the redbook version and the backup vocals re-appeared. I noticed some other slight differences in some other Seal songs on this HDTracks album. Does anyone know if this is this common to have differenct mixes on HDTracks songs compared to the redbook versions?

BTW, the Rolling Stones Hot Rocks and the Animals Retrospective are a must for British rock enthusuasts. I'm not a big Stones fan, but the sound quality of the songs on the Hot Rocks album are worth having and the selection of Stones songs on Hot Rocks is terrific compared to all the other Stone's fodder albumns HDTracks has for sale. Also if any of you were disappointed for many years with the quality of the redbook version of the Who's Tommy, download the HDTRacks version and you'll be amazed at the difference.

Brian...