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RE: WHY convert PCM to DSD?

Your arguments are all very well and good, but there are some points that you left out about those DAC chips that are "optimized" for PCM. My Mytek DAC uses a SABRE chip and allows control over some of the chip's features, such as the PCM upsampling filters. I use HQPlayer in my computer. There are four ways that I can play a 44/16 PCM file: (1) I can send 44/16 direct to my DAC, (2) I can use my computer to convert 44/16 to 176/32 and send that to my DAC, (3), I can use my computer to convert 44/16 to DSD64 and sand that to my DAC, and (4) I can use my computer to convert 44/16 to DSD128 and send that to my DAC. These four ways all sound different. In order of preference, best to worst, I have found them to be (4), (2), (3) and (1).


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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