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In Reply to: "thereby avoiding the sonic pollution of DSD noise" posted by Metralla on April 18, 2012 at 05:22:44:
"You may be on the wrong forum then.
One can debate the pros and cons of a technology and the negatives of vendors.
Sony flunked the technology positioning exercise twice, first with Redbook on too low a sample rate (instead of following the lead of the Americans) and then later with DSD where the sampling rate was again set too low.
When a conversion is made between PCM and DSD one gets the limitations of both technologies, e.g. the poor transient response from ringing PCM filters plus the high frequency noise of DSD64 (unless rolled off by filters that strip out all the benefits of DSD transients). That's why the BIS recordings sound better in their original format. They undoubtedly would have sounded better yet if the had originally been recorded with DSD or, at least, higher rate PCM, but some of the BIS recordings are available at 44/24 and these are better than Redbook. Some newer BIS releases are being made at 88/24, but even this sample rate loses in transient response compared with DSD64.
None of these formats are transparent, even assuming perfect converters. There aren't enough bits. One has to get to at least 352/24 or DSD128 to have a shot at this and then the necessary gear is "unobtainium".
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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Follow Ups
- RE: "thereby avoiding the sonic pollution of DSD noise" - Tony Lauck 05:55:48 04/18/12 (7)
- reference - Joe Murphy Jr 07:49:34 04/20/12 (3)
- RE: reference - SnaggS 09:09:00 05/04/12 (1)
- that's your opinion - Joe Murphy Jr 08:46:43 05/07/12 (0)
- RE: reference - Tony Lauck 10:53:36 04/20/12 (0)
- Well...I'm sure glad I'm NOT a golden-eared audiofile... - jeffreybehr 09:59:30 04/19/12 (2)
- don't need to be a "golden ear" ... - TBone 11:35:05 04/19/12 (0)
- Yes, you are! :-) - Tony Lauck 11:34:07 04/19/12 (0)
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