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In Reply to: RE: Upsampling everything to DSD SACD posted by flood2 on November 19, 2020 at 14:47:09
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.
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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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