Maybe, I haven't heard any DSD I liked. I believe the Lampizator is "DACless" that I heard.
That looks like the original 1x frequency, 2.8224 Mhz. The Tascam DSD recorders can double that. 3x and 4x are also available in some products.
Right I wasn't sure, so this should be what's on the original SACD's? I see why there's a "safety" filter at 50k.
Doesn't surprise me that those two words are not there. I had to apply them to what I was hearing. I found that there was little talk of this in reviews and few seem to be aware of it in any tangible way. Once a poster on another forum used the the word "there" (like the "there" factor) to try to describe it. I have spent 7 years trying to get a handle on this.
You got it. There was no question being asked for an answer. Sometimes, it's just my thinking out loud and looking for a response that can go just about anywhere.
In the case of DSD vs CD... if BenchMark's EE thinks DSD is probebly the better of the two.... lets see what, why and where for. And, i want to hear DSD's best. Has enough effort been put into developing it to a high level of quality/performance? Or was it cut short by marketing forces? If BenchMark thinks DSD has the technical edge, who can prove he is wrong? I'm listening.
Which technology won in the market place is Not an indicator that its because of technical superiority. Rather, in this case marketing forces and finances may have caused the use of certain technologies we use mostly.
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CD refers to Redbook 44.1/16 bit PCM. Thre are plenty of valid arguments that better, as in higher bit rate/more bits is not audible but anything that claims "high res" is more of something than Redbook. I don't know if better than CD means a whole lot today.
Real state of the art is 32 channels at 1,536 KHz/24bit HDMI 2.0. No hardware exists to make use of this. SO GET CRACKING! There's audiophiles deprived of the best possible audio.
I think your Auraliti can play those DSD files.
Real state of the art is 32 channels at 1,536 KHz/24bit HDMI 2.0. No hardware exists to make use of this. SO GET CRACKING! There's audiophiles deprived of the best possible audio.
I think your Auraliti can play those DSD files.
Thanks Scott.
I had actually considered doing a DSD DAC-less thingy, but have too many speakers to build.
If I did, I'd just take the stream after it's broken into left and right and run it thru a inverter and buffer so as to have a differential output. Run that differential signal into one of my nice Cinemag or Onetics transformers and there you go! Just because I like transformer coupled circuits. The transformer acts as LPF and rejects any common noise.
Never will get around to doing it, tho.
Again did you read your own link, they think it's a compromised format? You didn't read it did you?
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Maybe you could say, "I don't think there is established terminology to describe it, it's usually something people come to understand by hearing it for themselves," or something like that, if that is in fact the case.
If it's something that comes up often, you will have a few chances to figure out what type of explanation seems to work best to say as much as you honestly know how to describe.
Who is working on the HDMI 2.0 hardware for audio??
Can you find out if your Auraliti can play DSD and let me/us know?
This looks interesting to me. What do you think?
Are there others doing similar?
THx-RNMarsh
The circuitry in the Playback Designs is very similar. However it can convert PCM to DSD and it handles any other DSD details very well.
The Auraliti handles DSD over DOP and the latest firmware handles direct DSD I think. I don't know about 2X or 4X but I'm checking. To be honest DSD was just another nuisance during the project but customers insisted so graft some more patches and quirks into the driver code, hoping it doesn't break everything else.
The Auraliti handles DSD over DOP and the latest firmware handles direct DSD I think. I don't know about 2X or 4X but I'm checking. To be honest DSD was just another nuisance during the project but customers insisted so graft some more patches and quirks into the driver code, hoping it doesn't break everything else.
yes I did. I just dont believe everything I read from mfr. it came across to me as a bit of justifying the DAC chip used and its workings.
Then he says this -- "If the choice is between a CD and a DSD version, the DSD version may offer some improvement." But, I do wonder if 24/96+ HD master downloads has eclipsed both.
Which brings me back to what is the better and best way to do DSD? The unit of #88775 above might be there for DSD direct masters downloads.
THx-RNMarsh
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Next week I go to my Asia headquarters also known as my condo in Bangkok. Bringing my two teenage girls and their mother to Bangkok for R&R and shopping with my Lisa. No father, me nor brother... all ladies event. Should be fun for all. Then go to factory and check/listen to the new high SR ultra low distortion power CFA. I shipped my QUAD ESL 989 speakers over there to use. Then its off to other places and things to do... meeting and travel around the region. Will be following this in the evenings when I have nothing better to do. 🙂
-Richard
-Richard
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