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Sony Goes All-Out with High-Resolution Audio | Stereophile.com

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Is Hi Res Audio needed or even wanted? You'll have to buy new players that are capable of playing back the different formats for one thing. The other point is, if CD Redbook is good enough when the mastering isn't using gobs of compression, then why bother with a new format?.............Money makes the world go round folks.

Also, if the newer Hi Res format is going to use remastered recordings then how can you compare that against current ones that aren't? Of course the better mastered recording is going to sound better regardless of the format! It would make so much more sense to make sure that the people in charge of setting the recording levels didn't over compress to begin with. This is just another ploy to make the gullible think that they are getting a real bargain by paying more for a recording that should have been done right the first time 😉

As much as I love Neil Young's music, I've been a huge fan for years, I don't think he really knows much about the technical aspects of it. If his hearing is anything that I suspect it would be after 45+ years of LOUD ear bleeding rock and roll, then he can't hear much on the high end at all anymore.

Oh and Mr Serinus , he has zero clues anyway so why bother doing a point by point list of the BS he displays in all his articles. I'll leave that up to you the reader to sort those out.
 
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Another perfection we offer over mass-produced gear is the fact that we do not use a mask on the circuitboard. The mask is a sheet of chemical material added to the top of a circuit board which is usually either green or red. Audiophiles tend to agree that the red composition results in a somewhat better sound than the green type. The reason the mask is brought onto the circuit board is that, when a robot is soldering, the speed and accuracy of this process both have mutual trade-offs and this can result in solder being squirted over areas which might make undesired contact (a short circuit, for example). To avoid this, the mask is used to keep all cases of such occurrences from resulting in production faults.
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There is one major flaw with this belief....
 
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No the fact that solder resist is pretty much the same stuff as the resin in FR4, so a little coat on top of the traces is not going to make any difference, when microstrip traces, the wave is already going through 1.6mm of the stuff underneath it, so a micron or so on top is not going to make much difference.
As to squirting solder, well having 200+ degrees hot metal squirting around the assembly line may not be a good idea.
I would love to hear an explanation on how solder mask can alter sound, from a believer...LOL
On a more serious note green is best, for a number of reasons, sound quality is not one of them though, resolution, ease of inspection, cost are though.
When I first heard about soldermask and sound quality I did think it was a joke...
 
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Mixed process boards will go thorugh both processes.

It sounds like the writer was referring to solder paste being squeezed out from under an SMT component. If so they do not understand the process as pick and place machines do not apply sufficient pressure to the component during the place operation. A stainless steel mask is used to screen the solder paste onto the PCB pads on which the components are placed.

Excess solder paste is NOT placed on the pads. Only enough to wet the pad, component and wick between the two is used.
 
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