Skunk;215629 Wrote: > They may be the exception, but some players do seem to have a high > resolution DSD>I2S stream coming from logic that probably decodes DVD-A > and HDCD as well. [...] Wouldn't DVD-A be another fundamentally > different stream, which has to be turned into something a DAC can > understand?
No, HDCD and DVD-A are both PCM. DSD, however, is a completely different way to represent amplitudes. Instead of saying "make a step this high", DSD says "turn the output on now, now, now, now, not now, not now, now now, etc." Speaking DSD to the DAC is the whole point of it. Now, that alone does not rule out the possibility that there is some player out there which converts DSD to PCM for some reason, but it seems largely to defeat the purpose of using DSD in the first place (which is already questionable). Wikipedia has some good info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Stream_Digital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCD -- seanadams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ seanadams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36917 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
