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In Reply to: RE: WHat about DSD?? posted by morricab on November 20, 2015 at 03:45:14
DSD downloads are what - .05% of the market?
If that?
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HQ Player will convert any File to 2x DSD ( and no PCM Conversion-Step)., my favorite format.
I don't understand the hostility to DSD encountered here!
. . . there are certain types of listeners with a psychology whereby they don't want their listening "contaminated" with PCM. You see their posts over on SA-CD.net, but there are even a few of them here on AA. And when SA-CD,net had the effrontery to include blu-ray audio discs in their listings and discussions, many of these folks began to boycott that site. I have some great SACD's in my collection (many of them from PCM masters however - LOL!), but, frankly, I'm sorry that the DSD/SACD technology arose. All it did was to confuse the public, thereby causing the spread of hi-rez PCM to become slowed down. Today DSD has its little niche in the classical world, but it's practically non-existent as far as other genres (genera) are concerned. That's my two cents anyway.
so much hate directed at DSD.
Some without even listening, I'm sure.
And your point about PCM Masters on SACD, that says it all to me.
You can play ANY Format in DSD, it will sound great.
Unless you don't think so.
The debate seems to center on Ideas and Opinions, not Sound.
I was referring to listeners who are so worshipful of DSD that they can't abide the presence of PCM anywhere in the chain. Talk about hate! ;-)
I think the hostility is toward the marketers (mine is) as the root of high quality sonics is not in the format we buy and associated new whizbang equipment we shell out for, but how well the original content was recorded and mastered.While there are many CDs that sound like crap, it's not the fault of the 16/44.1 CD redbook format, IHMO. It's in the recording and mastering as I also own some CDs that sound fantastic and barely distinguishable from their 'hi-res' or DSD counterparts.
Edits: 11/21/15
Big J
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