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Banter from the other site had me turned off to these for a long time. Got a pair recently, lesson learned. Still honeymooning, but I'm gonna agree that they don't suck and let them be the headphone of my second rig until deemed passe. I do notice a succinct lack of personal hygiene products and bamboo shavings in the driver on certain tracks.

That's right, thanks. But the point is I can identify them because they aren't really the same source, not necessarily because one has higher bit depth than the other. I have the Doors DVDA box set, do you know how that varies from the current redbooks? It would make for a decent comparison. On the Metallica DVDA all I can hear is how they fucked up nearly everything about that album that Metallica didn't fuck up when they recorded it, so after hearing it twice I have stuck with redbook.

Yeah I am unaware of any extended rez on Lateralus. Without enabling an upsampling DSP effect, everything comes out at 16/44. I can easily spot the difference between Nirvana's Nevermind redbook rip, and the HDtracks 24/96 version, but they are different mixes.