DCtoDaylight wrote: > lost the ability to compare them to native PCM. What's needed is a way > to listen to them in their native DSD format, by burning them to an > SACD DVD disc for example. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any easy > way to do this....
Sony didn't want this. While a lot of SACDs were recorded with PCM (sometimes even high + wide), the design decisions that Sony made were to make all of the digital recording investment that studios had made into ProTools, ADC, etc. be obsolete. To sing the SACD song, you were supposed to get all new digital gear, all new software. Some studios did convert. But most (all?) sessions were either recorded PCM or recorded DSD. So if the masters are one or the other, there is really no way to compare them without some conversion. If you tried to track the session with both PCM and DSD, there is no way you could be sure that the levels, phase, etc were all identical. In practice, a lot of SACD and DVD-D releases were not really high-wide PCM, there were a lot done on 48kHz ADAT. I have never seen a serious attempt to compare high-wide PCM with DSD. Lots of comparisons of redbook to SACD, but that's not fair, its apples to oranges. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
