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RE: DSD not for ME...who else is less than impressed?

Posted by flood2 on December 26, 2016 at 01:56:14:
With DSD, the amount of ultrasonic noise due to noise shaping can influence/upset the analogue stages and it is possible that you can be hearing some of those subtle effects.

As with everything audio, everyone will have a different take.
However, it is worth noting that a considerable number of DSD titles were never recorded natively in DSD to begin with. You are simply hearing a converted format from a PCM original recording which is due to the difficulty of editing DSD natively.
Linn is one record label that records in 24/192 PCM then produces SACD titles subsequent to the PCM editing and mastering.

It is also of interest to read the paper by Stanley Lipschitz :"Why Professional 1-Bit Sigma-Delta Conversion is a Bad Idea" which was presented at the AES in 2000 which discusses the requirement of dither and the inability to add sufficient levels of dither with DSD.

The take home point of the paper is that DSD is fundamentally flawed.