Phil Leigh wrote: >> As we are of topic for a while again. > Hmmm... > Well Sony will happily tell you that DSD is "the ultimate archival > format" and is thus the perfect source for this endeavour. The fact > that the data is being taken from a physical SACD rather than a file > server doesn't change that...
And the reality is that DSD is a pretty good archival format. "Ultimate" is arguable. What Sony doesn't talk about is that DSD has very little bandwidth in the ultra high frequency range. Or more precisely, while there can be signal up there, there is a lot of noise that has to be processed to control it, and the noise gets shifted into the 35kHz on up range. While very few professional microphones record up there, and there is not a lot of musical information up there, what there is gets mangled by the noise shaping. Completely agree that whether the data comes from pits on a piece of plastic or from a hard disk, thumb drive, etc. makes zero difference in theory and in practice. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
