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In Reply to: RE: Chandos Masters: DSD or PCM? Real confusion! posted by Chris from Lafayette on July 05, 2012 at 16:52:27
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9849949-39.html
The whole DSD vs 24/96 PCM is the same thing. On paper DSD is superior. There's no debating this. People claim they can hear the difference, and wax poetics about the sound of DSD. But no one was done a true controlled experiment where a performance was simultaneously recorded in both DSD and 24/96 PCM with as much as the same equipment (such as microphones), and then tested to see if people could distinguish between the two.
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Thronhill I think you are missing the point. The point here isn't which format is better, or even that one is better than the other...it's which format is the original copy in..then let me have that one. I would agree that 24/192 and DSD can possibly be indistinguishable (I own the Massimo Liszt piano SACD/DVD-A where both were recorded natively)...then that simply means that several thousand (2k+ out of 7k SACD's are native DSD-recorded, and nearly a thousand more analog-to-DSD direct) SACD's are now available to be heard in very very high resolution. Don't take that away from me by converting them!! Can you find me 2000+ 24/192 native recordings? If so, great! I'm all ears.
Edits: 07/05/12
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