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RE: Thanks for the explanation, but it DOES sound self serving. . .

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Yes, I'm afraid that's to 2L's unfortunate disadvantage if they actually track the DXD output from their converters, and not the DSD doing an offline post processing conversion to DXD.

Morton has always been a DXD proponent, through the days of using their DAD AX24 and AX32 A/D converters, to their current use of Merging's Hours. All use Delta-Sigma modulators as front ends (the actual analog to digital conversion), and employ onboard realtime 352.8KHz 24 bit converters and decimation filters for the DXD conversion, if that output format is chosen. This results in a lossy second generation output.

I have no knowledge of 2L's workflow, but I do hope they actually track in the fastest bit rate DSD (DSD256 in the case of Horus), then do an offline DXD conversion using Pyramix's excellent Aprodizing conversion algorithms, keeping the original DSD for potential future use. Any other approach makes little sense; throwing out the original higher definition PDM (DSD) format in the A/D converter box to keep the working editing format (DXD) output, where you could have both just for the cost of storage.

Thanks again Chris



Edits: 07/18/17   07/18/17   07/18/17

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