the comments are all over the place. I don't have time to read them all, but I got the CNN version of them.
There are a few reasons for having done this. BTW this was my doing:) Reason #1 and the most important reason is because my customer wanted to be able to play 24/384 on his 24/384 DAC. This is not to say that's all he will do, but he wanted to try it. Basically, we will do anything interesting for a customer. As noted there are a few titles (people collect them) and I have it on good word from the owner of Blue Coast Recordings that more titles are on the way. The content will be native DSF (stereo version of DSDIFF) and plenty of software exists to convert it to high resolution PCM Reason #2 is because recently some have figured out a way to rip SACD and there will be plenty of 1bit 2.82MHz content available for conversion. In fact people are already posting the results and they are promising. Reason #3 for this work is simply for R&D. We need to push the envelope and see what is possible. How do we know we can't tell the difference if we don't try? Why go to the moon? Why go racing on Sunday? All this work has positive spin-offs that come to surface for all of us to enjoy at our comfort level. Reason #4 is up sampling and yes it has to do with being able to hear it and also being able to play it. I have done tests with unsuspecting friends that are not even remotely audiophiles. You should see there faces and the questions they ask? Questions like, "how the "F" did you do that" There wives sit there at the same time and say, "WOW". I submit that any of you can here sound stage and depth of sound even if you believe the sample rate can't be heard. These are things my unsuspecting friends that are not even remotely audiophiles hear. Right now I can think of five DACs that can play 24/384. They are mostly USB input and it just works if they don't require special drivers. It was not to long ago when people misspoke about 24/192 DACs and look around now. The majority of DACs internally up sample in hardware to 24/192. If you ask me what is needed I would tell you it's not more ideal talk from experts. What is needed is a plug in that will allow DSD playback from DSF or DSDIFF files with the appropriate conversion to 24/88.2 PCM. Since your devices are limited on sample rate to 24/96KHz the plug-in needs to be 24/88.2KHz. Any takers can send me an IM and you will find I'm happy to support the effort. -- vortecjr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vortecjr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30173 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89733 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
