Sly, to buy the Audiophile set or not really boils down to how old are you and how critical are your ears.

The regular Real Tracks have excellent sound quality. Have you listened to the demo songs yet? Those demos are all done with the regular RT's not Audiophile. They're not some overcompressed glitchy sound, they sound awesome. When the Audiophile tracks were first announced lots of very experienced studio recording types on this forum did side by side comparisons and a lot of them but not all, said that they couldn't hear any difference or if they did hear anything it was so slight as to be inconsequential.

Still, the Audiophile tracks are pure uncompressed wavs and are the best you can get and some folks simply want the best and there's certainly nothing wrong with that. But the question is can YOU actually hear the difference? I submit that very few over 50 can but if you're really doing studio production work and you're dealing with young recording engineers then those guys certainly can tell the difference so the Audiophile tracks are worth it.

To me it's a waste of money but check out all those demos, and decide for yourself.

Bob

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