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In Reply to: RE: Upsampling everything to DSD SACD posted by bullethead on November 17, 2020 at 17:13:47
How are you doing the upsampling and is the DAC used the same in both cases?
"Severe pain" is not something one would ordinarily experience with PCM unless the original recording had been poorly mastered or compressed resulting in inter-sample overs. If you are using a (Windows-based) computer source and if your aren't using ASIO or an equivalent means to get bit-perfect data transfer, then the Windows SRC can be "abusing" the data.
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
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and in Stereophile Letters.
I always kind of dismissed it.
But some digital music can wear me down,
too hard and cutting in some cases.
And I have to be careful about playback level.
Turning up something soft can make the loud passages unlistenable for me.
I think we have all come across poor sounding CD transfers/mastering/recordings from the 80s and 90s. Then of course the loudness wars have further ruined many CDs in the noughties. However, I do not find that DSD is any better than PCM as a format. For recordings I make in high resolution formats, I can certainly pick them as "better" than the Redbook down conversion, but I don't hear huge differences and certainly don't get pain in my ears!
"Turning up something soft can make the loud passages unlistenable for me."
This could well be due to dithering and noise-shaping artefacts. The dither amplitude and noise-shaping assume a certain listening level to be "transparent". On classical recordings of solo piano, I have heard nasty aftefacts when turning up the volume. For my own recordings and carefully choosing the dither and noise-shaping algorithms, I don't have this problem when down-converting to Redbook.
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
I think such people used to be more numerous around 10-20 years ago, but I also think that, for the most part, such folks have gone back to live underneath their rocks! ;-)
We had a very well known partisan of that idea (i.e., that listening to PCM was painful) here on AA years ago in the personage of Teresa (I think PCM may have given her a skin rash too!) - although I think she later developed other medical problems in addition. I haven't heard about her for years (aside from a couple of reviews she did for Positive Feedback) and I hope she's still doing OK.
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I'm using Linux. And USB, the Toslink and the SPDIF sounds better with PCM. Perhaps there is some kind of lower level stuff going on with using Linux and PCM. I have no idea.
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