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In Reply to: RE: PS Audio DirectStream DAC - an extremely interesting video. posted by Dave_K on February 16, 2015 at 15:52:27:
I was going to make a similar post.
The problem is the 44 kHz format. It is irretrievably damaged. It was a suitable mid-fi format for the 1980's but is way past technological obsolesce. No competent recording engineer makes new recordings today at the 44 kHz sampling rate. However, before release most productions are artificially lowered in quality to mid fi levels (44/16) or crap levels (AAC or MP3).
Frankly, I could care less how a DAC plays CD quality recordings. I don't ever send this format to my DAC. I always convert it via software to either higher sample rate PCM or to DSD128. If one uses various software programs one can experiment with different conversion processes and different filtering settings without spending money for special hardware. If you convert to DSD, be sure to convert to at least double speed DSD (DSD128) as otherwise there will probably be a noticeable loss of transparency do to the limitations of the DSD64 format.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: PS Audio DirectStream DAC - an extremely interesting video. - Tony Lauck 02/16/1518:41:04 02/16/15 (1)
- RE: PS Audio DirectStream DAC - an extremely interesting video. - Dave_K 17:53:03 02/17/15 (0)
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