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In Reply to: RE: good point posted by fantja on February 28, 2021 at 04:26:57
I'm being a little too critical but in MY experience I can hear a difference but not necessarily an improvement with DSD/SACD over PCM. If I do hear an improvement, it was probably because the DSD/SACD was from a remastered recording - in which case the PCM (CD) version is also improved.This brings me back many many years when audiophiles were all starry-eyed over the sound of SACD discs compared to playing back the redbook CD layer on the same player. I didn't think that was a fair comparison because the player makers had a vested interest in making certain that SACD sounded fantastic while paying less engineering effort on the player's redbook CD quality.
A more fair comparison would be to compare SACD from a SACD player against the CD layer played back on a separate high-end CD-only player, like the Accuphase you own.
In any case, I do find that some DSD is artificially and overly smooth to my ears.... when smooth was never the intent.
Edits: 02/28/21Follow Ups:
2nd Note;
as soon as I dial-in my cabling, I can hardly await to compare the Accuphase CD player vs. AYRE Universal.
You're in a great position to make those A/B comparisons of SACD vs CD. I'd like to get your take on it. I'm already too biased so don't let me influence you - not that you will ;-)
Thank You- Abe,
I hope to have Cabling in my system sometime in May of this year.
It is going to be a very close race. Both players are outstanding!
Abe
Excellent counter-point as always. I concur, in that, these streaming services do over-smoothe some of their catalog. Probably any number of reasons for doing so. An interesting contrast to satellite radio (XM).
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