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RE: Neither, play the DSD.

DSD128 is as far as my DAC goes. I haven't tried DSD256, so I have no way of commenting definitively on your suggestion, but you could well be right.

I listened to Bruce Brown's DSD Battle Royale and found that the Grimm ADC (DSD64 only) was not really bettered by any of the newer DSD128 DACs. So this makes me think that, at least when it comes to ADCs today, that DSD128 may be at, near, or even slightly beyond the point of diminishing returns for purist production processes, e.g. analog to DSD128 to analog with no intermediate conversions or processing except "razor blade cuts". DSD256 may well be necessary for more traditional studio production processes with multiple generations of DSD required for post-production mixdown or sweetening, or worse (e.g. pitch correction as needed for singers that can't sing). I expect it is much easier to make a DAC perform well at DSD256 than an ADC, based on what the circuitry has to do.




Tony Lauck

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



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