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In Reply to: RE: TAS Spencer Holbert's Shameful Admission. posted by Sprezza Tura on April 08, 2014 at 10:20:23
>>I essentially said that 99% of all digital music owned by most people is in PCM..you say you have 95% PCM.
Essentially? What you originally wrote was:
"99.99999999 % of all the digital music anyone will ever own is in PCM"
Tony Lauck qualifies as an "anyone". He has more than 1% DSD music. For someone
who is quick to jump on others' assertions, it seems you went overboard with yours.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
—Leonard Cohen
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Actually I agree with you.
What I SHOULD have said is that MOST people's digital collection will be 95% PCM..and not used such an extreme number. It left the door open for hair splitting.
There is little or no extra manufacturing cost associated with adding DSD playback capability to most new DAC designs and there is an increasing availability of demonstration quality recordings appearing as DSD downloads. So it is not surprising that many new DACs oriented to the audiophile marketplace are including DSD capability.
One can question the benefits, but if the costs are low, why bother?
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
I don't disagree.
What irks me, and the point I was trying to make, is that is silly to call a DAC "obsolete" or "non competitive" if it does not decode DSD. Far more important is how good does it sound.. the analog output stage, etc.
The audio press has somehow desperately latched on to this non existent "DSD Revolution" causing hysteria and getting to consumers to question their DACs value if it is not stamped "DSD Ready". Again the numbers don't lie as far as available titles.
I don't disagree. Indeed, if I hadn't already been in the market for a new DAC for other reasons, it's unlikely that I would have purchased a new DAC just because to play DSD, especially because I had no DSD files to play and would be facing a "chicken and egg" situation. Nor would I have paid a huge premium to check of the "DSD" box in my new selection. I did feel willing to pay a certain premium to satisfy my curiosity, however.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Understood.
I am ALL for DSD. But I refuse to buy the nonsense that the flood gates will open concerning available media and that DSD will enjoy anything approaching mainstream acceptance.
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