May 30, 201313 yr all my DACses are garbage. I need another turntable Turntables are now using the ANALOG512 Synchronius Cross-Undersampling EZ-Bake-Oven Uncontrolled Plutonium Clock technology, make sure you have the latest!
May 31, 201313 yr You know Quadriple DSD files don't really jive with craft beards. ---------- Also is DSD gonna kill HRx? Edited May 31, 201313 yr by blessingx
May 31, 201313 yr Turntables are now using the ANALOG512 Synchronius Cross-Undersampling EZ-Bake-Oven Uncontrolled Plutonium Clock technology, make sure you have the latest! Damnation, I got the quasi-latests ANALOG 510 version on order. I'll ask if they can implement that before shipping.
June 2, 201313 yr All the fun I've missed trying to ignore the 'net for a few days. I read the whole discussion about DSD, including the Stereophile links and I'm still not sure what to make of it. A friend is about to receive a Resonance Invicta (I swear that name sounds more like that of a lawn mower than a piece of audio gear. Maybe it's an Australian thing...) which can play back DSD. He has ripped a crapload of SACDs, I have the Weiss converter and hopefully we'll be able to experiment on the weekend. Luxman DA-06. Waaaaant. In all honesty, I think Luxman digital gear is utter rubbish. The DA-100 and DA-200 were so bad it was unbelievable. I was so shocked I waited until someone independently confirmed what I'd heard first. The D-05 was simply underwhelming. It only sounded like a less bad DA-200. Slightly unrelated, but I bought a second-hand Anedio D2 FOTM. I like it better than what I heard of the Benchmark. It's so excessively clear and spacious-sounding that it sounds like the bass isn't there in most music. Since it has a remote control, it is intended for my living room system with the Emotivas. A couple of weeks ago I hosted a mini-meet of local audiophiles and one brought the Mytek. That was very good-sounding from the built-in USB (noting that it was plugged into a PS Audio Power Plant, which would have improved the sound a bit).
June 2, 201313 yr Interesting read... John Siau: Benchmark Audio Guru on DSDhttp://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=74 Edited June 2, 201313 yr by blessingx
June 2, 201313 yr No DSD, and $40,000 -- but someone on Head-Fi is going to buy one for sure. Atomic! http://antelopeaudio.com/en/products/Rubicon-Atomic-AD-DA-Preamp
June 2, 201313 yr Author I can't decide if that's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen or the most ugly.
June 3, 201313 yr If I had Bill Gates money, I still wouldn't buy anything with that list of features in 1 device, or anything that looked like that.
June 3, 201313 yr Hard to tell at a show (Newport), but the QB-9 DSD sounded like something worth looking into.
June 3, 201313 yr Interesting read... John Siau: Benchmark Audio Guru on DSDhttp://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=74 Heh...I was typing up a post on this topic, but it looks like that is largely superfluous now. I also didn't want to really belabor the point - as Dusty noted, these discussions are generally not geared towards putting others' feet to the fire and aiming towards consensus. In any case, Siau covers a lot of the issues with DSD (though, not all of the issues...) and I agree with him regarding PCM being a more favorable archival format.
June 4, 201313 yr It's a good article. I've read the same kind of thing before, but SACD still works better for me than digital files. Different strokes for different folks.
June 4, 201313 yr I still think everything comes down to the mixing and mastering. For some reason, they took better care of them when the final product was going to be a DSD release than other formats. Good recordings sound awesome on any format.
June 5, 201313 yr I still think everything comes down to the mixing and mastering. For some reason, they took better care of them when the final product was going to be a DSD release than other formats. Good recordings sound awesome on any format. Agreed (within reason)...
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