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[NickB]

As someone who does not really understand the different coding systems, and having read that DSD is a complete waste of time as a system as it gives nothing SQ wise that a good 24-96 or 24-192 flac or wav gives. Can someone explain what would be achieved by have DSD native playback apart from semantics?

Nick

You wouldn't want to bring up this subject on the Computer Audiophile forum.  There are threads and threads on it.

I've done some on the fly PCM to DSD conversion into my old Ayre QB-9 DSD and sound did change, it got softer, which many might describe as more analog.   I think that's what the DSD folks like.

Oh I might just to see the response - I may have lied about the digital stuff and I am a little tired of the "fact" that every time they find a bigger more expensive way of selling us the same original data over and over again a little wearing. If the original was recorded in 16/44.1 or 24/192 or anything less then making it ten thousand times bigger will not help.

If it was/is recorded in DSD and the dynamics compressors are told to keep there nasty fingers out you might hear a difference. But neither is likely to happen to soon is it?

Nick

As an add on to my post above please see this taken from the latest Dr AIX email.

It's starting to make sense to me. After trying for over 10 years to elevate the fidelity of recorded music and establish a meaningful stratification of quality levels, someone finally explained it to me in a single sentence in an email this morning. Simply put, refusing to accept that compact discs are "high-resolution audio" is bad for enterprise. There it was in plain black and white. The message from this individual and lots of other providers of high-end audio components, cables, accessories, and software is that what matters most is not an accurate and meaningful definition of high-resolution audio. What actually matters most with regards to the HRA initiative...and in fact the entire high-end audio business...is how much money can be extracted from audio enthusiasts and music lovers in the quest for the "Absolute Sound" or the "Soul of Music".

Nick