Digital Drive

Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

RE: With MQA Coming, Should I Buy The PS Audio Converter?

Posted by Jeff Starr on January 6, 2017 at 21:27:12:
MQA is an encoding method designed to pack higher resolution into a smaller, easily streamed format.
I doubt you will ever see noncommercial ADCs with MQA encoding. So the PS Audio will allow you to digitize files in DSD or up to 24/192 PCM.

If you get one, assuming your DAC can decode DSD I would try both formats and chose the one you like best.
I would use PCM because you will have more flexibility with editing. Vinyl Studio allows you to remove pops and ticks without losing fidelity. With DSD you can only remove the lead in and the run off noise, nothing else.

If I had the PS Audio ADC I would compare 24/96 to 24/192 and use 24/96 if I could. It would save some space and there is nothing from an LP anywhere near 48k.
I'm pretty sure PS Audio will give you 30 days to try it, and they take trades.
Whether or not you buy it MQA should not be one of the deciding reasons. Even if by some very unlikely circumstances MQA does become commonplace, all DACs will play non encoded music, as intended. All our CDs and files will play same as ever.