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In Reply to: RE: What We Hear With DXD 32-bit Files (Free Sample Downloads) posted by Rushton on January 19, 2024 at 10:09:17
For the past month or two, I've been listening to DSD256 exclusively, and I just decided to go back to some Hi Res PCM and DXD. They really sound good to me. In fact, some of them might sound even better than DSD.
Abe Collins once said he felt that DSD was a bit artificially 'smooth'. I disagreed with him at the time, but now, I'm not so sure. The Hi Res PCM and DXD albums I've been listening to sound very good indeed.
Happy listening!
John Elison
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I've played around with all the formats and on any given day each of them will sound great. It depends so much on the recording.
What I find though to be artificially smooth though is when I convert PCM to DSD on the fly in Audirvana using whatever algorithm it uses. The higher the res of the PCM the better it will sound, but it also will take 16/44.1 and take the edge off, and that's where it sounds a bit artificial.
my Clarinet and Saxophone Sounds.
To be avoided.
There's so little edginess in those recordings that they've put many listeners to sleep! Wonderful for relaxation and "easy listening"! ;-)
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Chris, darn it! There you go triggering an endless replay of Mantovani's "Theme from Elvira Madigan" in my mind.
While I don't own any Mantovani music these day, I did own LP's in the 70s. Remember the old Culumbia Record Club? Well, limited disposable income in college made this a must have of sorts. My preference for instrumental music, and the limited selection of such in the upfront free offerings, put Mantovani on my list. One thing I can say, it was terrific background music while I was studying, sweetly undistracting.
The "Theme" somehow so totally stuck in my head, that I can virtually replay it mentally, down to the instrumental passages. Wow!
RCA, Capitol, Angel, Columbia - I was a member of each of them at various times!
The few people that I knew that belonged to a record club hated it. After the introductory offer of 10 LPs for a dollar you were stuck selecting one bad record after another.
But sometimes, what seemed to be duds were actually albums which repaid repeated listening years later. And, in general, I was pleased with my selections - especially when they would have "special sales" (60% off IIRC) of their titles which were about to go out of print. Of course, these "special sale" items did not count toward your "obligation", but the local stores rarely had the records that cheap. Just speaking for myself, I look back (perhaps with rose colored glasses!) on those memberships with fondness.
"Just speaking for myself, I look back (perhaps with rose colored glasses!) on those memberships with fondness."Yup. So do I, duds and all. I got some great recordings in the process, some of which eventually deserved premium media re-release, including SACD, DSD and other HD like the ones earlier discused here.
Among the last LPs I bought from a club was the soundtrack of the play "A Little Night Music" by Stephen Sondheim. The music was really good and it was a very decent recording. Later, I lost all my LPs when I moved to FL. What I never imagined was that Mr Sondheim went back to remaster the recordings in a manner that better portrayed the theater experience. This remaster landed in one of the CD editions, which I bought years later - not knowing about the remastering.
To this day, what he did to some of those tracks serves to wow folks who do not believe me when I speaks of 3D imaging and soundstage element solidity in stereo. With the right setup, Sondheim's intent delivers audibly and almost visibly sulptured singers in front, back, and outside left and right the speakers. They are all over a large stage, just as Mr. Sondheim wished.
And the darn LP record was bought because it was all they had that I MIGHT be interested in from the club's selection.
Edits: 01/26/24 01/26/24
Who's calling these press conferences?
No, no time for Mantovani!
Posts which relate how an inmate has changed his mind can be useful in credibly exposing an alternate point of view.
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