Originally Posted by Gordon Scott
Originally Posted by Animas3D
Thanks Mike. That is fascinating as well. So you are using RealTracks and MIDI. Hmm. I don't think I have the Audiophile RealTracks. I believe I have the UltraPak. Maybe it would be worth the investment based on my results. They must be much larger in size. Where do you store all of them? Is there a very noticeable improvement in quality. What are the UltraPak tracks, MP3? What is the difference exactly?
Matt Finlay wrote a post on this some time ago and the thread is still relevant: differences between the 'regular' and audiophile version

If you have the Ultrapak, then it's not the audiophile version.
The audiophile version is now a bit over 2TB.

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It doesn't make a huge difference just straight out of BiaB, but people who do much processing after BiaB often say it's then signficant. That's pretty reasonable if one is making high-quality productions, perhaps less so for stuff going on, say, YouTube.

I agree, the YouTube compression algorithms make any differences negligible.

Otherwise, for my work, Audiophile is the only choice. I'm told that my 70 year old ears can't hear the difference but once that audio goes through my normal process, it's quite noticeable.

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