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In Reply to: RE: Many reasons... posted by Doug Schneider on October 29, 2016 at 13:49:24
I thought DSD was supposed to take care of archiving analog material. That went well
Alan
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Depends what is meant by "archive." The advantage of DSD as an archival format is that it closely resembles actual music, which means that when they clean up the mess after global nuclear war and start to explore our lost civilization, DSD files will be easier to make sense of than PCM (and certainly than MQA).
In general, for archival purposes, there's not much advantage these days to compression. DSD is a good archival format in the sense above; DXD is great if you think you'll someday need to turn it into something else.
MQA is for transmission, whether for streaming or downloads. So they only reason to transcode to MQA is if they intend to distribute it in that form.
jca
Well, then there's that... ;-)
Let's just say that I don't think there is ever going to be a once-and-for-all archiving of everything. Look how many times certain movies have been restored.
Doug
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