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In Reply to: RE: Picking on Gordon ? posted by Sprezza Tura on October 15, 2014 at 10:18:18
Hi,
> And by the way, Ethernet streaming has by far become the choice of
> most high end manufacturers.
As someone else said that "there are only 5 high streamers" seems acording to you there are only 5 high end makers.
And of these 5, 3 seem to use the same cellphone CPU/modified Android/bought in module/software solutions and the other two use a cellphone CPU on their own PCB plus modified android OS.
There may be more than 5 of course and not all of them may be cellphones in camouflage. MAY.
> Then he came on here and said DSD was a waste of time and that
> DoP is a shameful mess.
If the software that is worth playing back exists, not allowing customers to do so directly, if the implementation is easy enough and gives better results than multiple conversions would not serve customers. They should be able to play what they want to play and in the best possible quality.
Nowadays substantial catalogues of music can be obtained in DSD and often the DSD transfers sound better than the CD masters, not because DSD is inherently better, but because they were edited/messed with less. In this case even I will select the DSD version.
But, alas, DSD is a poor choice of audio system (next to any viable alternative avilable in current technology) but it can come close to matching CD and DoP is a worse mess than he makes out (we are still trying to fix it so it really works properly - we means the industry - on both the computer software side and in hardware), compared to ASIO 2.2 (which has it's own challenges).
And if I can only have DoP availble and if the DSD master is better than the CD or PCM one, I will work with I have got.
Does not mean I'd not rather have a transfer from the original masters (or mike feed) done in 24/176.4 on a Pacific Microsonic Model 2 without any "production", but I ain't got it and so that is that.
It's about (enjoying) the music...
Ciao T
At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to untolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?
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There are far more than 5 "high end" streamers. Not even close. And that number approaches a hundred if you count streamers that don't do higher than 96 Khz.
Substantial catalogs in DSD? Where?
Hi,
> Substantial catalogs in DSD? Where?
British Telecom. Or something with the same intials.
To stay legal, just buy the SACD and download the Rips.
Ciao T
At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to untolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?
SACD rips on torrent sites are beyond most folks here. First, there is no way to know if these are error free, they are big files, and of questionable origin to say the least.
I was referring to legal, for sale DSD downloads, of which there are a total of 300 on Acoustic Sounds. It was the biggest hype and snow job perpetrated by the audio press.
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