Looks fishy considering the following:

• A poster indicated that an original VH CD had similarly great DR numbers.
• There's no comparison with earlier releases.
• I don't see much spectral content above 24kHz. It seems to die into a flattish noise floor (with a few spikes here and here.)
• Some recordings have a brick-wall filter at 22kHz. WTF? Are these up-sampled from the CD? Why is HDtracks releasing content with no information above 22kHz in 24/192 format?

Run a whole bunch of your SACDs and other high-res sources on an analyzer that can do 64kHz sampling with a -140dB noise floor, or 512kHz sampling with about a -120dB noise floor (hello, Stanford) and you may be very surprised by what you find.

Hint: most of them are brickwall source--whether mastered for CD or taken from CD, the information isn't there anymore.

I had almost no VH other than vinyl. I wanted some digital copies.

I grabbed the HDTracks set.  It's sounding pretty good, FWIW.

Looks fishy considering the following:

• A poster indicated that an original VH CD had similarly great DR numbers.
• There's no comparison with earlier releases.
• I don't see much spectral content above 24kHz. It seems to die into a flattish noise floor (with a few spikes here and here.)
• Some recordings have a brick-wall filter at 22kHz. WTF? Are these up-sampled from the CD? Why is HDtracks releasing content with no information above 22kHz in 24/192 format?

Available in 24/96 or SUPER AUDIOPHILE 24/192!!! (Tiniest print possible) we bricked some of them at 22Khz, so anything higher than 24/48 is a total waste of your time and hard drive space. Oh wait they don't say that, do they? Who did the transfering? On what? They don't say that either. I guess you're just supposed to hand over your $110 and hope for the best!

What a load of crap. A 1978 VH I first press will cost you about $15 for a NM. The later albums are even less than that.

Thanks for the links Grahame. In the end it is all about the mix and master.