.. Or designing and building fully treated listening rooms the magazines are full of that as this is the most neglected part of the whole set-up and logically audiophiles are addressing that . and it cost less to do than buying more high end hifi .
I'm kidding they are not :D But actually this is not a new one it's been going on since it's release , even Sony themselves has contributed to the FUD that DSD is somehow magically better than PCM (regardless of bit rate or sample rate ) . There have always been claims of this superiority . Have you missed this one :confused: you kicked in an open door . It's not one of the worst misconceptions around Sound quality is not actually suffering it's more or less the same in practice . What SACD succeded at was being practically impossible to rip (the DSD layer ) it has some properties that makes the drives needing special decoding chips and Sony would never license the stuff to a computer drive. It may be false but was not Sony/phillips CD patent running out and the need for something else to license arise hence time to develop CD' successor and why not fleece the studios while at it to have them buy special DSD mixing and mastering equipment so this fud is not only aimed at audiophiles. In practice many SACD players are converting DSD to PCM internally to be able to use all the good filters and DAC's already developed and in many cases this conversion is also done by most studios while mixing and producing so in case of popular music the don't have a special PCM free mixing console on the side and works in parallel with the normal release ;) The formats suffered a fate similar to DVDA a large proportion of the discs are of upsampled 16/44.1 or analog content , actually as SACD was the more popular format it suffered from more fake releases . DVDA was the "better" format . What I like of both DVDA and SACD is the discrete multichannel format that is a huge improvement ,if the recording is done right and no itÂ’s not a gimmick but that did not take either due to lack of content , but it is on a rebound as blueray discs with discrete multichannel and picture is sold nowadays. The dolby True HD format is the surviving part of DVDA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_TrueHD . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97545
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