In Reply to: Reduced S/N ratio? posted by Jim Pearce on January 30, 2003 at 11:24:36:
I don't remember specifics. I would need to look over what testing they are doing to see what they are measuring. Reduced S/N versus 16-bit CD? Hard to believe. Don't forget there are many types of noise. The quantization noise of Sony's DSD is claimed to be well below the quantization noise of 16-bit CD in the audio range, that is up to 20 kHz, and I see no reason to question that. But there are other noise sources.
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- can you give me a link to these charts? - tunenut 11:32:37 01/30/03 (28)
- Stereophile.com - Jim Pearce 11:48:08 01/30/03 (27)
- I looked at the 777 review... - tunenut 12:58:58 01/30/03 (26)
- It is the noise level that I'm looking at. - Jim Pearce 14:25:21 01/30/03 (4)
- I will need to think about this... - tunenut 14:48:45 01/30/03 (0)
- Just compare the graph's - Frank 14:40:50 01/30/03 (2)
- Re: Just compare the graph's - Jim Pearce 08:08:54 01/31/03 (1)
- Re: Just compare the graph's - John Kotches 07:19:21 02/01/03 (0)
- Re: I looked at the 777 review... - Frank 13:16:17 01/30/03 (20)
- same thing is happening on the regular CD player... - tunenut 13:38:06 01/30/03 (19)
- No the signal is comming from a sacd disc and not... - Frank 13:50:32 01/30/03 (18)
- the Meridian 508.24 CD player shows the same thing... - tunenut 14:03:10 01/30/03 (17)
- They tell why on the same page - Frank 14:44:03 01/30/03 (16)
- here is the correct reason... - tunenut 16:57:14 01/30/03 (14)
- No, - Frank 03:01:56 01/31/03 (0)
- Yes and no. - Jim Pearce 20:31:48 01/30/03 (9)
- I am only talking about CD players now... - tunenut 21:05:54 01/30/03 (8)
- It makes no sense... - Frank 04:39:29 01/31/03 (1)
- Re: It makes no sense... - Jim Pearce 08:01:45 01/31/03 (0)
- Agreed. - Jim Pearce 21:15:17 01/30/03 (5)
- The DSD sample rate for the sacd implementation - Frank 03:13:04 01/31/03 (0)
- don't know - tunenut 21:22:35 01/30/03 (3)
- The obvious conclusions are.. - Jim Pearce 21:40:37 01/30/03 (2)
- here is the best I can do right now... - tunenut 21:54:11 01/30/03 (1)
- JA is going to write a series of articles on the tests. - Jim Pearce 22:19:10 01/30/03 (0)
- thank you - that makes sense - Christine Tham 18:21:26 01/30/03 (2)
- That's right Christine, they're just graphs of the.. - Jim Pearce 20:44:21 01/30/03 (1)
- can you please go easy on the sarcasm? - Christine Tham 21:39:58 01/30/03 (0)
- Re: They tell why on the same page - John Kotches 15:54:24 01/30/03 (0)