19-Feb-2023, 11:20
(19-Feb-2023, 09:53)DavidĀ A Wrote: ...I thought that everything sounded cleaner but "too clean" in a sense. One of the things I like about my system is how natural voices sound, especially the sense it delivers of voices coming from breath. Tolstoy's voice lacked that sense of breath and I thought the sense of chest tone had diminished. I liked the cleanness of the sound, the voice sounded a little sweeter as a result, but that added sweetness came at the cost of losing my sense of her as a breathing person. As a result I lost some of the sense of "naturalness" that I like and that's not a price I like paying, even if things sound a little sweeter and cleaner in some ways.
This is exactly my impression, not only for PCM to DSD conversion, but for any DSP I tried in Roon. Something of the naturalness and purity of the sound is lost...
I have the same impression when I activate the Devialet's DSP (for example, SAM).