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RE: Long time no hear :-)

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In Reply to: RE: Long time no hear :-) posted by Christine Tham on October 24, 2010 at 20:37:03

Howdy Christine

It has been a while, give me a buzz if your back in town with some extra time on your hands :)

Well I haven't built a multichannel DAC yet so I'll keep the Meitner for a while :)

PCM at 24/88.2, 24/96 and higher is essentially the same as stereo DSD, EXCEPT perhaps for a little ghostlyness. By this I mean that it has the same soundstaging, freq response, quickness, ease, and other such features as DSD, with the exception that DSD is still a little more real sounding than PCM. At this point if I'd never heard stereo DSD I'd probably not miss it.

I still don't like a lot of 16/44.1 as much. It's often great to listen to, but there's something more missing. Tho I'm quite happy with my 176.4 and 192 to double rate DSD upsampling filter I'm still playing with the 44.1 to 88.2 filter (which is also the 48 to 96 filter) and I'm not sure if there's anything more to extract from 44.1 with different/better filters or if I've reached it's limits (as far as my aging ears anyway.)

-Ted

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