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RE: Question for DSD guru's

Posted by Jim Treanor (A) on May 13, 2014 at 14:21:39

In Reply to: Question for DSD guru's posted by mbnx01 on May 13, 2014 at 11:59:39:

Up front: No guru credentials here, so apply as many grains of salt as you consider appropriate to the rest of this.

Hard to say which flavor will become the "standard bearer," but my take is that, as with so much else in audio, implementation is the key. My home office setup includes a DSD128- (and DXD-) capable DAC, and I've listened to a fair amount of downloaded DSD64 and DSD128 program lately, mostly classical and jazz, and not a little of it based on analog sources.

Where I've been able to compare, using sample downloads available from 2L (and albeit with DSD64 and DSD128 transfers based on DXD masters), I find 128 a touch more liquid. On the other hand, I just downloaded the Tilson Thomas/San Francisco Symphony Mahler Third DSD64, a transfer using the original DSD master tapes. Stunning in its tonality, flow, spaciousness, and dynamics. Obviously a transfer made with care. So I don't get hung up on the digits following "DSD".

Jim

Edits: 05/13/14

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