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RE: MQA Enabled ADCs

Posted by 13th Duke of Wymbourne (A) on November 2, 2016 at 18:15:35

In Reply to: RE: MQA Enabled ADCs posted by John Atkinson on November 1, 2016 at 09:29:45:

Hi John,

I'll stick with my broad-brush 'an ADC is still an ADC' if only to back-up Jim's original statements and not to suggest that Isaac is in any way correct. Now, pretty much all (or just plain all?) ADCs are over-sampled types and the modulators are essentially similar, at least in my way of thinking. All highly-oversampled with a few bits of resolution. How those bit-streams are later decimated, with whatever resulting temporal response, is, to me, secondary.
As you mention DSD, I find it ironic that a recording format was developed to support 1-bit converters only for the converter industry to move away from 1-bit designs because they don't work that well.

When I see some of the arguments that have spun out of MQA related posts I am reminded of the New Yorker cartoon you told me about at the Newport Beach show in June!

Regards
13DoW

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