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RE: Check out the nativedsd.com site

Posted by PAR (A) on September 15, 2021 at 08:45:04

In Reply to: Check out the nativedsd.com site posted by Chris from Lafayette on September 14, 2021 at 21:54:30:

" and they almost always sound magnificent."

Yes Chris but that is because the companies that go to the trouble of producing recordings with those formats tend to be audiophile orientated in the first place. It is always how the recording has been engineered in terms of microphone selection and placement etc, irrespective of the file resolution selected by recordist or consumer, that is the trump card.

As for the difference between the resolutions I think it is far, far less than commonly asserted. I have the recent Handel Op.3 and Op.6 Concert Grossi recordings on Pentatone purchased from Native DSD in DSD 64, DSD 128 and DXD formats. Playing them back to back it would be metaphorically hard to insert a cigarette paper between them. There is no slam dunk winner for SQ. IMO any variations that exist to the extent that they would result in forming a preference are just as likely to be down to the equipment that the listener is using and its relative ability to handle the different formats. Additionally not too many users understand that most DSD "capable" DACs cannot process native DSD and convert it to PCM first. What value DSD v.PCM opinions then?

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