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In Reply to: RE: "...click, pop, click," "...exactly!" "...well said!" "...tell me about it!" "...good riddance to vin posted by John Elison on October 26, 2014 at 14:32:48
I have an Onkyo C-7030 CD player. It uses a chipset that converts everything to DSD. It's sound quality is, to my ear, better than the best CD players and converters available in the earlier days of digital, even in the 00s before DSD started to emerge. I bought it for ~ $130.
One has to wonder if CD players of this quality were available in the early days of CDs, whether LPs would have survived except as collectors' items.
Sure, there are a few LPs that, with $7,000 plus of front-end equipment, still sound a little better, but they hardly justify their cost.
BTW, the newer releases of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra works are quite well-recorded though some of the readings leave a little bit to be desired. If "Marche Slave" were any slower, those captured prisoners would never arrive.
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I believe that your Onkyo is a 24/192 "upsampling" CD player. 24/192 level resolution is considered by some to be the sonic equivalent of DSD.
I googled that Onkyo player to death and never saw any reference to DSD conversion. Onkyo site says it has Wolfson 192/24 DACs. What gives?
The Wolfson DAC converts all the sources to DSD before analog. At least that's my understanding.
Here's a link to technical data for the Wolfson DAC used in the 7030. No indication of DSD capabilities.
I may be mistaken. My understanding is that the digital signal was converted to DSD. But I can't find any reference to support it.
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That's interesting! I hadn't considered converting PCM to DSD, but I do like the sound of DSD and I also like the sound of the two LPs I've copied to DSD.
Best regards,
John Elison
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