Phil Leigh;184965 Wrote: > Olav - very interesting. A couple of thoughts: > 3) I still have my doubts that MS managed to write a software version > of the Microsonics HDCD chip... >
While I was with you on this initially, after pulling the documents from the wayback machine I am not sure I agree anymore. Speaking from a theory perspective there is no reason except thrust (cpu performance) you can't do a chip in software. Having read the documentation, such as it is, it sure looks to me like a specialized DSP processor. I might be wrong... of course this doesn't mean that M$ implemented it fully. But if you get the same result on analog capture vs. 24b capture, that's pretty suggestive to me that they did, assuming all the features are enabled on the track Olav chose. Now, if we really have confirmed decode, the audibility of this is the issue. With digital versions of both we cam match levels digitally and using ABX software, decide if its the difference is in fact audible. Maybe I should write an ABX slimserver plugin ;-) -- Eric Carroll Transporter-Bryston 3B SST-Paradigm Reference Studio 60 v.4 SB3-Rotel RB890-B&W Matrix 805 SB3-Pioneer VSX-49TXi-Mirage OM7+C2+R2 ReadyNAS NV+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Carroll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9293 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32967 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
