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In Reply to: RE: WHat about DSD?? posted by morricab on November 20, 2015 at 03:45:14
Where is the software? Hardly a comeback if you have a few DACs manufactured with 2x or 4x DSD capability and there is roughly nothing to play on them. Even considering just plain 'ol DSD then there is still very little repertoire available even if you have a taste for the obscure (which you will need - no current major artists/recordings/labels as far as I can tell). In regard to true DSD (i.e not just sample rate converted from PCM originals or old analogue sources), even less.
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my understanding is that there is quite a bit out there. Clearly not as much as plain old cd or vinyl but still a substantial amount. I admit to not being fully informed on DSD software availability though.
Looking around the interweb there seems to be a total of around 750 albums available currently as "real" DSD downloads. Most are, however, pretty obscure titles even given the predominately specialist repertoire. There are a handful (count 'em) of DSD 128 recordings available on the small 2L label. That's all I can find. No doubt there may be a few more but they won't add up to much as a commercially viable format.
That is tiny in the great scheme of things and probably represents fewer releases than SACD could manage at a similar stage of its introduction. It is certainly vastly smaller than a single month's release schedule of CDs even at this reputedly dying phase of the medium.
Yep. Because even if the original recording medium was DSD it will most likely have been converted to DXD for editing.
Which makes sense, because their recent releases have been 2-disc sets that include an audio-only Blu-Ray disc with the program in 192kHz PCM stereo, etc., as well as the SACD/CD disc.
JM
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