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In Reply to: RE: If your Sony has these Audio Settings, you'll be posted by oldmkvi on May 11, 2017 at 13:02:43
Yes, I love mine and can't thank you enough for the recommendation. My gripe is with Channel advertising/offering Quad DSD when it's really only 64. But I didn't stop to read the fine print. Moot point though, Fischer just doesn't have a feel for Mahler, though most of the world thinks otherwise.
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It wasn't DSD 64 for long as he converts that to DXD which is 32/352.8k PCM in order to master it.
THEN he converts the PCM to DSD 64 or whatever for sale.
The only question is whether the "DXD = 32/352.8k PCM" he sells on his web site is the same file that he ends up with after mastering.
aren't any DSD 512 recordings, but what people just don't get is that Up sampling to DSD 128 and above sounds Great, no matter what file you start with.
Unfortunately, it's not very capable as a DAC. :-(
SMSL M8 pictured above sounds REALLY bad compared to my Audio-GD MAster-11 on 44.1 and up PCM.
The guy at HQPlayer (Jussi Laako?) seems to think that my iMac i7 is capable of upsampling to DSD 512 but I don't think that the SMSL would justify the effort.
As soon as I get my 'headless' Mac Mini and broken Thunderbold hard drive back from the shop, I may download the Channel Classics Mahler 3 in DXD/32/352.8k PCM just to try it. If it's exactly in the file format he uses when he masters, it might be something to hear.
I read at Computeraudiophle.com/HQ Thread that Macs Don't have DSD 512, only Windows.
I have no knowledge beyond that.
I doubt very strongly I'll move past what I've already got, ( DSD 128) unless Sony updates the Z1 (soon...!?).
The original plan was to convert to DSD 512 using the iMac then send it over ethernet to a uRendu in my main system and then to a DSD 512 capable DAC.
Still haven't sprung for the uRendu because the Raspberry Pi just sounds too darned good!
OK, PCM only and limited to 24/192 via S/PDIF, but still...
I'm not using the Raspberry Pi in the main system, still MacMini which with iTunes and Bit Perfect should do 32/352.8k PCM so that might be the limit of my 'high sample rate' audio for now.
If I end up with a NAS drive with music on it I may get the uRendu for the main system and keep the Raspberry Pi at my living room easy chair headphone listing station, which gets the most use anyway. Wife uses the loft where the main system sits for watching TV and movies anyway.
to Adler.
which I ma pretty sure my DAC can handle (even if in truth it's likely only handles 16-18 bits even with 4 PCM1704's per channel).
If iTunes with Bit Perfect won't handle it (which it should) I'm pretty sure VLC Media Player will.
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