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Re: Ok, so I will try this without being snotty

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This is more like it good Doctor - you've gone from someone I'd probably tip my pint over to someone I could actually have a drink with whilst engaging in a healthy though heated debate, although being essentially tea-total it would have been a mineral water so no real harm done.

Now I dare say we could carry on batting the DSD ball between us ad nauseum with rallies which could rival Nadal vs Federer on clay in their duration and intensity, but as with religion and politics we have our entrenched positions and we're not going to budge are we?


"My point, lost again, is that in this moment in time any one of a number of distribution media may be selected. It is irrelevant in terms of what is preserved on the original recording. If it is worthy music, and a worthy recording, I promise you … someone will dig it up, clean it up and re-release it. Sheesh, if they re-release Duran Duran they will do anything."


This is the crux of your argument and despite your suspicion it isn't lost on me at all. You believe that so long as a performance is recorded to the very best medium we have presently, that performance is saved for posterity and technological advances could enable better and better quality replay so long as the initial recording was of the highest quality.

Yes, I agree with the principle as any sane minded person would, but I don't agree with your assertion that DSD is the medium and the problems with DSD as an archiving medium are real.
Perhaps when the sampling frequency is doubled as I seem to remember Michael Bishop mentioning, the noise will be pushed further up the frequency range and become less of an issue (even a non-issue), but until then DSD is not suitable for archiving in my opinion.

I've included a link which many people will no doubt have already read, but there are many more critics of DSD out there who aren't merely critical because they have financial interests in DVD-A.

Obviously the equipment now exists so that the PCM conversion referred to during mastering doesn't need to take place.




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