marcoc1712 wrote: > > The problem is - as you said - the concept of "Better". But If you > translate it to "different" there is nothing wrong in your friend > statement, converting PCM to DSD is lossy and (could) change the sound > quality, when the DAC revert back to PCM, again is lossy. I think he is > not a 'fool', but I'm with you and nobody could make me think it sound > 'better'.
Yes, the problem for me is that they do not say "different", they say "better", they say that somehow they have managed to turn lead (crappy old PCM) into gold (DSD). Alchemy!!!!! Most of these hardcore audiophool types are completely bonkers and they don't even understand their own equipment, and what conversions are already taking place before they start adding more conversions to reach their "sonic nirvana". Marco, I might be getting very grumpy about things in my old age, and based on my own experiences, taking part in (and organising) listening tests, where people couldn't tell the difference between a track, whether it came out of a flac or wav "container", or was streamed as raw PCM........ but I'll let that go, with at least you guys are getting bit-perfect playback of the PCM, regardless of what was used to transport it to the "renderer", but..... this nonsense, that seems to be the next big thing, that everything needs to converted from PCM to DSD..... You know, thinking back, and you can probably blame me for being the one that was petitioning Adrian to get DSD support into squeezelite to start with....... It was on the basis of allowing people with DSD DAC's to play back their PS3 rips...... (At that time there wasn't the concept of native DSD in Linux, hence the DoP support), and "wouldn't it be good to allow everyone with any DAC to be able to play back DSD", hence the DSD->PCM, decimate and resample, built-into squeezelite..... Anyway, I have lost track of time..... But this must be a couple of years ago now.... This foolery with converting everything to DSD, seems to have started much more recently. The only use case, (I'm in grumpy old man mode again), I see for this, is that someone has a DSD dac, native DSD, that doesn't even accept PCM..... I know of a couple of people with those type of DAC's, (myself included), but I'm hearing from people with what I consider to be a world class PCM capable DAC about how converting everything to DSD is the way forward...... Maybe they own shares in a hard disk manufacturer...... I know of one person who has just invested the same amount of money as a new car would cost, purchasing a storage solution, so he can convert (offline) his complete music collection from PCM to DSD, and store it. Oh well, each to his own! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
