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Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

What was the question?

Can we throw numbers at digital audio and expect more music? Maybe. How can we bog down legions of audiophiles in a huge morass of mental masturbation and bleed them dry in the process? I guess you can ascertain my feelings on it all. How much progress are we really seeing, and if there is some, why is it accessible to so few?

More often than not, it seems to be a matter of preference these days, as there is satisfaction to be had at all levels of computation. I've listened to a number of DACs which offer DSD and some are great, silky even. I even owned a SCD-1 back in the day, to spend time with SACD.

We can be glad to see experimentation but I follow the music (published content). Most of the DSD warfare is a tremendous turn-off for me. My preference still lies with 16bit/44.1kHz PCM and multibit converters, even if my DAC has the ability to upsample in order to use kinder filtering (Lite Audio DAC 83, 4x 1704K). I've settled on that for now, and dedicate myself to digging out great music and buying discs I missed the first time around. I won't live forever and I'm more of a music-lover and less of a hobbyist, playing with audio IT. I'm not alone.



Big J

"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."



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