Archimago wrote: > Interesting comment Firedog. I have not heard the Sony but will > certainly give it a try when I'm next at the dealer. > > As one who has been buying SACDs since about 2001, ripping my SACDs > since 2012, having played with PCM --> DSD conversions like with JRiver > upsampling, and have some experience with the whole PCM <--> DSD > conversion process (see the 'post on my blog this week' > (http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2014/04/analysis-comparison-of-dsd-encoders.html)), > I personally do not feel DSD adds anything special to sound quality. A > well done 24/96 (especially multichannel!) is as good as anything I've > heard from DSD over the years... > > As suggested by the conversion results on the blog post, I'm quite happy > with 24/88 conversions of DSD64. Accuracy is excellent so the math is > good! In fact, mainly for convenience and space savings, I only bother > keeping about 20 of my SACDs as DSD on my server mainly as demos for > friends who want to have a listen. The rest I keep as 24/88 for > streaming to the Transporter. > > I suppose one could argue for the high sampling rate of DSD (temporal > resolution of things like impulse responses) and filter difference, I'm > not one who has experienced or believe that they make much difference > ultimately compared to a good upsampling linear phase PCM filter. > > > > Can you tell us which recording you're referring to here? I would > certainly love to have a listen... Maybe even try resampling to PCM to > see whether I hear a difference.
Good blog again . Have you investigated DSD > PCM conversion , as DSD has less resolution than PCM i see no loss of anything ,but are there other factors I do think a 24/88.2 pcm of any DSD will be transparent to any human . I'm not in any way a believer in DSD (all arguments for its existence is moot since hirez pcm recording came to be ) , but lets for discussion sake pretend that it does somehow makes even better recordings than 24/192PCM presumably as DSD128 , or heck just equally good would suffice for my point . Then we are back to to the usual confusion about recording formats and consumer playback ! RECORDING IN DSD128 (FOR EXAMPLE ) DOES NOT MAKE IT NECESSARY TO PLAYBACK IN DSD , JUST AS RECORDING IN 24/192 PCM DOES NOT MAKE IT NECESSARY TO PLAYBACK IN 24/192 PCM These are not even related questions anymore ! They where related in the past , CD was necessary as we had no digital carrier format at all at the time . But now we have several formats thats surpass human cognitive ability to chose from . In the days of SACD and DVDA they where more or less artificially separated by marketing (and most recordings are/where fakes anyway ) a recording in any of those format could be used to produce any media . And no one had rips or files as we have today. I think some DSD recordings would just make great CD's or Hirez 24/88.2 flac files for us consumers btw . Thats why this is so bizarre , just because some studios have got to their minds to release DSD -files- to consumers (they should just have released records in other known well known formats )does not necessitate a end to end DSD playback chain ? Thats why this just reeks of marketing woo woo . The early successes if vitalizing the media market by CD and DVD makes it tempting to try again with yet another new format , but there where real reasons for CD and DVD they replaced horrible formats there is no cause any more . And that it makes for another redundant and expensive format for the industry to handle is another topic . My pow is as always that we already have all formats we need for music and possibly much more formats than we ever need. To many file formats is also just confusing who ordered that :) If thats going to change it's must be something thats makes it less complicated and provide something else to the experience . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101003
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