Interesting comment Firedog. I have not heard the Sony but will certainly give it a try when I'm next at the dealer.
As one who has been buying SACDs since about 2001, ripping my SACDs since 2012, having played with PCM --> DSD conversions like with JRiver upsampling, and have some experience with the whole PCM <--> DSD conversion process (see the 'post on my blog this week' (http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2014/04/analysis-comparison-of-dsd-encoders.html)), I personally do not feel DSD adds anything special to sound quality. A well done 24/96 (especially multichannel!) is as good as anything I've heard from DSD over the years... As suggested by the conversion results on the blog post, I'm quite happy with 24/88 conversions of DSD64. Accuracy is excellent so the math is good! In fact, mainly for convenience and space savings, I only bother keeping about 20 of my SACDs as DSD on my server mainly as demos for friends who want to have a listen. The rest I keep as 24/88 for streaming to the Transporter. I suppose one could argue for the high sampling rate of DSD (temporal resolution of things like impulse responses) and filter difference, I'm not one who has experienced or believe that they make much difference ultimately compared to a good upsampling linear phase PCM filter. firedog wrote: > ... BTW, if you haven't heard a native DSD recording of acoustic > instruments, you might be amazed at how good it sounds. I have a couple > of native DSD orchestral recordings that simply are the best sounding > recordings I've ever heard of a symphony orchestra. Period. Can you tell us which recording you're referring to here? I would certainly love to have a listen... Maybe even try resampling to PCM to see whether I hear a difference. Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101003 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
