Skunk wrote: > Re: Transporter's DAC, perhaps one way to get DSD into it would be the > addition of an HDMI input, fed by a universal player. Food for thought > anyway :-)
It might, but why bother? Not why think, civil discussions about audiophile stuff is fun. But I don't see any point in DSD. DSD has no proven sonic improvement over high-wide PCM. Sony claims good stuff, and the well done DSD I've heard sounds great. But DVD-A also sounds great. And well engineered RedBook can sound great -- even if it rarely does. SACD has serious problems with noise shaping pushing digital noise into the 50mHz to 80Mhz band. Now granted it is above human hearing, but if the ultra sonic bandwidth of DSD is important, why are they pushing the noise so low? It has a huge potential for intermodulation distortion, which can be in the audible bands. I don't see the point of using a plastic disk player connect to a Transporter. The whole idea is to never touch the silly disks again. Use a compute to manage and organize. I have also not heard any difference between DSD output to my M-Audio Delta 1010, captured as 96/24 stereo, and simply feed to my Transporter. Not double blind, but I don't see much science between Sony's claims that DSD is superior to MLP high-wide PCM. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
