In Reply to: RE: "thereby avoiding the sonic pollution of DSD noise" posted by Tony Lauck on April 18, 2012 at 05:55:48:
I don't remember the "Americans" who wanted a higher sampling rate. Philips wanted a higher sampling rate, but at a lower bit depth (14-bit). Some of their first players and at least one from AR used 14-bit D-A converters.
I agree that SONY made the same poor decision twice. The combination of pressure from the DVD-A camps inclusion of multichannel and some in the DSD camp wanting multichannel forced the second poor decision. Multichannel is one of the main reasons we got DSD64 (2.8MHz) instead of DSD128 (5.6MHz). If they would have taken a "quality first" stance (ie, the best 2-channel digital that the then current technology could provide), nearly all of the DSD noise -- excuse the pun -- would have been eliminated. I believe Ed Meitner suggested DSD128 before the format specs were finalized.
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