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Re: The Clear Superiority of SACD in the Digital Class

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Is this what you were talking about? - Ted Smith 10:06:04 08/16/06 (0)
- http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/hirez/messages/228230.html (Open in New Window)
You'll have to come over and point it out sometime :) - Ted Smith 07:12:53 08/15/06 (0)
Howdy
With all of the grief you've given me about the (documented) effects of ASRC I've got to ask you by what mechanism do you claim that DSD noiseshaping causes "dry chirping in the very soft passages or silences that is not present on PCM"?
How many systems have your heard this on? Who else has heard it? What documentation do you have? If you haven't heard it on a lot of systems what makes you think it's not just an artifact of a particular system? (There are a few systems which weren't designed for such a wide bandwidth signal (especially with a lot of hi-freq energy), but do quite well with 20KHz Redbook.)
With all of the SACD detractors who flooded this place in the past I don't remember anyone coming up with this one.
I've listened to too many SACD systems to count and looked at too many FFTs of DSD DACs to count and never heard nor seen what you are talking about.
You claim that the artifacts of ASRC are not really a problem, but yet they show up in a format where the noise floor is -96dB and you say that the effects you hear in DSD are noticeable where the noise floor is -120dB. This just doesn't make sense.
-Ted

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