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DSD conversion

I have an Onkyo C-7030 CD player. It uses a chipset that converts everything to DSD. It's sound quality is, to my ear, better than the best CD players and converters available in the earlier days of digital, even in the 00s before DSD started to emerge. I bought it for ~ $130.

One has to wonder if CD players of this quality were available in the early days of CDs, whether LPs would have survived except as collectors' items.

Sure, there are a few LPs that, with $7,000 plus of front-end equipment, still sound a little better, but they hardly justify their cost.

BTW, the newer releases of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra works are quite well-recorded though some of the readings leave a little bit to be desired. If "Marche Slave" were any slower, those captured prisoners would never arrive.


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