Does anyone have both vinyl and CD release of KPM Archives series in WAV or FLAC

[Christopher-2010]

Hello, I'm new here,

I'm looking for both the vinyl and CD releases of the KPM Archives series in full WAV or FLAC quality, (not CD or Vinyl rips)? These are the albums:

Vinyl series:

Archives Series Volume 1 - Light Atmospheres
Archives Series Volume 2 - Drama
Archives Series Volume 3 - Light Hearts
Archives Series Volume 4 - Newsreels
Archives Series Volume 5 - Comedy-Happy Activity
Archives Series Volume 6 - Light Atmospheres

CD series:

Archives 1 - Light Activity
Archives 2 - drama
Archives 3 - Showbiz / Romance
Archives 4 - Newsreel / Sport
Archives 5 - 1940s And 1950s
Archives 6 - 1940s And 1950s
Archives Volume 7
Archives Volume 8
Archive Series Volume 9 (1940s And 50s)
Archive Series Volume 10 (1940s, 50s And 60s)

Thank you

[nidostar]

I have Archives 1-10 as they appear on the APM website. When you say WAV quality I take it you mean in lossless format. Only the fact that a file has a WAV suffix doesn't guarantee high quality. It is just a container. If so I can let you have FLAC copies of all 10 albums.

[Christopher-2010]

I'm sorry but I need WAV

[BlackwatchPlaid]

I'm sorry but I need WAV

FLAC is just a container to hold the wav if that makes it easier to understand. When you get FLAC, you are getting the WAV.

[Yohanes Salomo]

FLAC is just a container to hold the wav if that makes it easier to understand. When you get FLAC, you are getting the WAV.

Ah, i guess that's true to me.

[Christopher-2010]

Every time I download a FLAC file, the audio with higher volume is compressed, slightly flatted. Where every you got the FLAC from you can get the WAV. And also I needed both series: https://www.discogs.com/label/876307-Archive-Series-12 and https://www.discogs.com/label/1580808-Archives-Series-2

[BlackwatchPlaid]

Every time I download a FLAC file, the audio with higher volume is compressed, slightly flatted. Where every you got the FLAC from you can get the WAV. And also I needed both series: https://www.discogs.com/label/876307-Archive-Series-12 and https://www.discogs.com/label/1580808-Archives-Series-2

FLAC is 100% lossless sir. The wav you input can be recreated from the FLAC at a later time by decompressing back to wave. You are hearing a placebo. There is no difference between the wave before it is turned into FLAC and after turned back into wave. Mathematically, you can prove this with checksum hashes. Don't be silly.

[Christopher-2010]

I'm looking at the wave form through Ocenaudio.

[BlackwatchPlaid]

Every time I download a FLAC file, the audio with higher volume is compressed, slightly flatted. Where every you got the FLAC from you can get the WAV. And also I needed both series: https://www.discogs.com/label/876307-Archive-Series-12 and https://www.discogs.com/label/1580808-Archives-Series-2

I'm sorry I helped you out at all. You ungrateful person. Demanding services as if we are a McDonalds. I hope you find help from someone else.

[Christopher-2010]

Someone on youtube called CMF Soundtrack uploads a lot of the music that I want, and it isn't compressed with flatted volume.

[Swingalong]

I'd be interested in these albums too, and flac does fine for me! 

[nidostar]

Gosh I seemed to have missed all the drama on this topic while I was asleep. So, sorry I'm late to this party! I'm always fascinated by the determination of those who have a flawed understanding of audio formats to try to convince us that lossless formats are anything but. As I mentioned in my post above a WAV file is merely a container not a guarantee of high quality audio. What if one was to convert a 128kbps MP3 file to WAV? Would that improve the quality of the audio? Of course not. It's a bit like saying you want to buy a car so long as it's red! A red Ford is not the same as a Ferrari.

As @ChunYinZi has explained often the tracks one obtains direct from the library web sites are not as perfect as their equivalent releases on CD. The human ear can only pick up frequencies within a certain range. The CD format at 44100Hz is more than adequate. Of course if one is an audio professional carrying out a multitude of edits it often suits them to have a higher frequency rate to minimise any quality loss. Though any loss would not be noticeable to the human ear.

May I ask @Christopher-2010 why it matters so much to you that the files you are after should be of such a high quality that the average human ear would not notice the difference? Also I'm puzzled by your reference to someone on YouTube uploading uncompressed audio files. Surely all audio on YouTube is compressed isn't it to satisfy streaming bandwidth requirements.

At the end of the day surely what this forum is about is the enjoyment of music. I have a large number of albums in MP3 format which I've collected over the years and still enjoy listening to them. I certainly wouldn't delete them all just because they don't meet the higher standards we seem to be obsessed with nowadays.

End of rant!

For those who would appreciate FLAC copies of the KPM Archive albums 1-10 you'll find them here ==> pixeldrain.com/l/RM3Dymzp

[Swingalong]

Thank you nidostar! 

[Yohanes Salomo]

I'm looking at the wave form through Ocenaudio.

Ocenaudio? Never used that before. But i'm sure you'll get WAV from FLAC file.

By the way, i generally used Audacity for so long now. And i see FLAC being lossless like WAV, but it's compresssed, but not compressed like MP3 (though my format preferences are MP3 and FLAC).

[Retronic]

I am tempted to record a few tracks from one of the vinyl records in WAV just to see what people’s ears make of them.  I always record in WAV and convert to FLAC as they sound great.