IS DSD IMPORTANT, TRIVIAL, OR A WASTE in home audio?
I have quite a few CDs. Some of them sound bad, some really great and way better than other HiRes stuff I have. I think the format really doesn't matter at all and if a SACD sounds better then it's simply because it's produced well and not because it's a SACD.I have quite a few SACDs, they sound great
Agreed. I play DSD files all the time, sometimes as DSD but more often as PCM in order to enjoy the advantages of DSP for room/speaker correction.I play DSD files and SACDs all the time even though I know there is no audible difference between PCM and DSD.
Is it a waste? Of course not. It's a lovely format which was very complicated to play natively in PC domain just a couple of years ago.
Impossible to edit, takes more space then PCM, sounds the same, but it gives me joy when I listen to it.
Why?sounds the same, but it gives me joy when I listen to it
Why buy a collector's swiss watch when you can look time up on your smartphone?Why?
One answer is in post 8 and the other is because ten years ago or more I spent a considerable effort to play DSD natively.Why?
Why buy a collector's swiss watch when you can look time up on your smartphone?
For most amps, that would not work. Basically any of the high performance class D amps are self-oscillating. They have no use for a PWM input signal. Also there are many issues with applying feedback. Class D amps aren’t digital.Can even output DSD signal direct to Class D amp w/o modulation.
So you store video in a format that can be streamed to HDMI without conversion?Since 99% DAC are DS, DSD is the format to store.
So you store video in a format that can be streamed to HDMI without conversion?
DSD is very inefficient and you can’t do any processing on it at all. It’s just a total PITA.
How?I use EQ, volume leveling on my DSD files.
By conversion to multibit. There is no other way.How?
So double conversion with software or something.That's old,thought that something new has emerged.By conversion to multibit. There is no other way.