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The Discwelder chromeII works really well. It is very easy to use. So far my buring has been in the 2 channel mode but i hope to render some multitrack source material in the near future and try 4.1 (quad style) and 5.1 (surround)Rendering times with 24/192K make it hardly worth the effort to go to 192K but since i am working from analogue source material (original recordings/self produced) i thought it was worth the effort.
At 24/192K, i get slightly over 1 hour on a standard dvd disc and the method that i am using makes these unplayable in anything other than a dvd-a player or computer set-up for dvd-a.
Later in the week i will do some 24/96K and some 24/48 and compare. The sound quality seems very very close to the original except the ultra high frequencies (that i can hear) seem to be boosted ever so slightly. This could be caused by the dvd-a player (panasonic) imho.
What i like especially about the dvd-a format is that i can make my own dvd-a's without having to use anyone else (sacd forces you to use a manufacturing plant) and for that purpose alone, the rather expensive cost of the software seems very well worth the price of admission. (how many sacd's could i get made for $3000?, not very many) I plan on archiving most of my analogue tapes to dvd-a and hard drive and this is the whole reason behind it...better than cd quality sound possible. (at least it seems to have better overall fidelity to me)
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I prefer to record in 96kHz/24bit and produce audio-only DVD-Vs
from this. There will always be DVD-V players around. I'm not so sure
about DVD-A.
bring bac k dynamic range
I've got that option to do dvd-A and the dvd-V (sound) but haven't read into the manual enough yet.
The Video_TS would need to be authored externally, and there are some pretty heavy restrictions on the content of such a Video_TS.
Okay, Chrome 2 has an AutoMirror function, but this is for Dolby Digital only, and the spec legality is questionable.
Also - not all DVD-Video players will accept a 24/96 stereo file at all.
Not by a long, long way.
16/48 is the mandatory spec for LPCM, with support for up to 24/96 being optional, not mandated.
Certain players will truncate a 24 bit word to 16 bits, and decimate a 96KHz sample rate to 48KHz. Ugly.
Some Copy Protection methods also restrict the digital output to 16/48.Finally, you cannot use uncompressed Multichannel Audio at all in DVD-Video. It is catered for in the specs, but was only ever optional, and never implemented in any player at all.
It may be interesting to create such a stream (maximum bitrate of 6.144Mb/sec allowed) and see if this will output in a DVD-Audio player with a properly set call from the AMGM to the VMG of the Video_TS.
One day I'll try this & see what happens.....
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