23-May-2015, 20:45
(23-May-2015, 12:21)Vivialet Wrote: one hint: if you play DSD files with jRiver all DSP's are inactive. I'm using the parametric EQ to kill some room resonances which is not working when playing DSD files. Until Devialet comes up with a built in EQ that makes DSD unusable for me...and btw: I don't think that DSD is really better than HD PCM. Which makes me wonder why so many people are so keen to have it, especially as the download offers are very very limited, at least for my music taste. I would trade in DSD playback for a basic parametric EQ anytime...
JRiver are just being honest/accurate here. It is not possible to apply eq to DSD so if they did so it would have to be converted to pcm first, so it wouldn't strictly be DSD any more, though it is extremely likely that anything sold as DSD will have had some manipulation at the mastering stage in PCM then converted back to DSD to sell.
I also don't see any reason to believe there is any real practical difference between DSD and PCM, other than convincing marketing in order re-sell the same albums again. IMHO.
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