Thread: Pentatone Survey

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Post by hiredfox August 15, 2013 (1 of 18)
I was invited by e-mail to participate in an on-line survey being conducted by Pentatone on the hi res music scene. It takes around 10 mins to complete. It is extremely relevant to our interests and needs so I urge you all to take part - contact Pentatone if you've not had an invitation.

It is not often that recording, media or equipment companies bother to solicit customer opinions - all too often a "take it or leave it" attitude prevails - so it can do only good to offer our inputs to this leading light of the SACD field.

Post by Lute August 15, 2013 (2 of 18)
Thanks!!

I will gladly give it a try.

Post by fredblue August 15, 2013 (3 of 18)
hiredfox said:

I was invited by e-mail to participate in an on-line survey being conducted by Pentatone on the hi res music scene. It takes around 10 mins to complete. It is extremely relevant to our interests and needs so I urge you all to take part - contact Pentatone if you've not had an invitation.

It is not often that recording, media or equipment companies bother to solicit customer opinions - all too often a "take it or leave it" attitude prevails - so it can do only good to offer our inputs to this leading light of the SACD field.

Thank you for the info, hiredfox. I signed up to Pentatone's Facebook page where there is a link to the survey (which has a competition prize too if that's an incentive to anyone here to respond) and completed the survey with as many "absolutely agrees" for the questions relevant to SACD as possible (of course!).

Post by samayoeruorandajin August 15, 2013 (4 of 18)
Do they offer anything free for our participation other than the possibility of winning something?

Post by Kveld-Úlfr August 16, 2013 (5 of 18)
hiredfox said:

I was invited by e-mail to participate in an on-line survey being conducted by Pentatone on the hi res music scene. It takes around 10 mins to complete. It is extremely relevant to our interests and needs so I urge you all to take part - contact Pentatone if you've not had an invitation.

It is not often that recording, media or equipment companies bother to solicit customer opinions - all too often a "take it or leave it" attitude prevails - so it can do only good to offer our inputs to this leading light of the SACD field.

Thanks for the tip, John.

Just answered this survey and found the questions very relevant.

Post by classicrecordings August 16, 2013 (6 of 18)
fredblue said:

Thank you for the info, hiredfox. I signed up to Pentatone's Facebook page where there is a link to the survey (which has a competition prize too if that's an incentive to anyone here to respond) and completed the survey with as many "absolutely agrees" for the questions relevant to SACD as possible (of course!).

I am not on Facebook. If possible, could you post a link to the survey?

Thanks, David

Post by Kveld-Úlfr August 16, 2013 (7 of 18)
classicrecordings said:

I am not on Facebook. If possible, could you post a link to the survey?

Thanks, David

http://eepurl.com/DKA0n

Post by Chris August 16, 2013 (8 of 18)
I just filled in the survey and found it so so,with lots of imo completely irrelevant questions.
And many far more relevant ones missing.
I was hoping that there would be at least one or two boxes that were not simple multiple choice tick the box questions. But I hope Pentaman is keeping an eye on this thread and once again I ask him this time with a bit of irritation. Why do you record in DSD but only make pcm hi res downloads available????
The downloads that are offered as masterfiles on several sites are NOT masterfiles but pcm conversions of native dff files in basically all cases except the Janowski Wagner series,that have actually been recorded in native pcm.
There is on my systems a clear difference between the native DSD on the SACD and the 24/96 pcm.
Groot has made his stand clear elsewhere : it is up to the labels to decide,but he records in DSD and that is one of the reasons I buy recordings from Pentatone.

I would strongly like to have exactly the same SQ even via downloads from Pentatone as I get from the SACDs.
Only the native masterfile format can rightly be called a masterfile, everything else is false marketing IMO.
There are a number of DSD capable dacs and an equally growing number of music lovers who don't want to compromise with SQ more than neccessary.
Pentaman for Gods sake what are you waiting for???

Post by audioholik August 16, 2013 (9 of 18)
Chris said:

I would strongly like to have exactly the same SQ even via downloads from Pentatone as I get from the SACDs.

I wouldn't mind getting double or even quad DSD files from PentaTone. A growing number of USB DACs support 128x DSD (some go to 256fs), so if you're targeting the computer audiophile market why not deliver what the market expects? The recent Pyramix release (8.1) allows just that, so indeed, what are you waiting for, PentaTone??? http://www.merging.com/products/show?product=1&page=103

Post by Windsurfer August 16, 2013 (10 of 18)
samayoeruorandajin said:

Do they offer anything free for our participation other than the possibility of winning something?

???

Participate to protect your own interests not to get something for nothing.

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