JezA;401304 Wrote: > I'm not suggesting that lower resolution sources can't sound great; > indeed, I'm sure that Louis Armstrong sounded fantastic on a shellac > disc going at 78rpm, and in some ways current popular music has adapted > itself to the limitations of the rubbish media and devices through which > is is transduced - I mean, exactly what does 'fidelity' mean in the > context of scratching listened to through $1 earbuds?! - but for any > music that uses acoustic instruments including the unprocessed human > voice then I don't think you can have too much fidelity. BTW, I'm > pretty sure that Linn didn't record anything DSD, they just converted > their hi-res stuff to that format for the dual-layer releases. There is > certainly a very worthwhile difference between the two layers on the > releases I've given links to. It's nothing to do with 'more bass' or > 'more treble'; it's just to do with 'more'.
Linn DO use DSD to record for some titles (probably all recent/new ones are in DSD). They HAVE to convert to PCM so we can actually use them since Sony in its infinite wisdom decided that ripping to DSD is prohibited. Maybe one day Sony will wake up and smell the coffee - and then again, maybe pigs will fly. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... SB3 (wired) - TACT 2.2X (Linear PSU) + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods) - Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Digital,Kimber Speaker & Chord Interconnect cables Outdoors: Boom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=60665 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
