Phil Leigh;182534 Wrote: > I've never heard a "bad" HDCD (regardless of whether the DAC was HDCD > capable or not).
RR Reveries was sounding bad whatever I tried... Don't think it's HDCD related though... Phil Leigh;182534 Wrote: > ...there is no point in trying to "downconvert" an HDCD wav to non-HDCD > thinking it will sound better. It will sound the same...unless you have > an HDCD DAC in which case it will sound worse than it might because you > have just pointlessly removed the benefit of HDCD. This is not about downconverting. HDCD decoder dynamically builds the "final" signal using standard CD data as a base, and additional HDCD information. What I think about is to do the same thing just once, on a computer, resulting in 24 bit wav file that represents finally decoded HDCD recording. Not sure it's possible, but that would make sense to me. On CD you're limited to 16bit, so you have to do it dynamically. There's no reason to have such a limitation on pc. -- 325xi simaudio nova cdp >> simaudio moon i-5 >> revel performa m20 via acoustic zen matrix reference ii and acoustic zen satori -planned additions:... >> deq2496 >> lavry da-10 >>...- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 325xi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32967 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
