rhizomaticon wrote: > The important thing to remember about SACD is that it is not a PCM > format like CD or DVD-A or MP3 but completely different. >[snip] > SACD's approach is called Direct Stream Digital (DSD), > which samples 1 bit at 2.8 MHz, allowing a far greater approximation of > an analogue waveform which one could conceptualize as a 0 bit with an > infinite sample rate (?). At least that's how I understand it so it > may very well be wrong.
You are wrong. DSD is only slightly different than PCM, it too samples the waveform, it just does one bit samples at a higher rate. your 2.something mHz rate is not much different than 24 bit PCM at 96kHz the arithmetic is simple, 24 * 96,000 == 2304000 or with commas 2,304,000 Sony did nothing outside of what Shannon and Nyquist predicted. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
