JackOfAll wrote: > 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!
We have also the DSD Komputer that a the cost of a Ford Fiesta, could accomplish real time conversion using a free (!!!) version of SOX... Who buy this computer should be a fool. Correct. This computer is aimed for audiophiles. Correct. Then all audiophiles are fools. No, is wrong. ____________________________________________________________ SB+, Klimo Merlino + Kent Gold, Monitor Audio Studio 20 Gold SE+, Klimo reference and DIS Interconnect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ marcoc1712's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34842 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
