DSD DAC

[mikeymad]

I am old school - I just play my SACD's on my SACD player..  (it is so low-fi)...

[Voltron]

All that spinning and spinning has got to fuck things up, right?

[Grahame]

Only if you fail to use one of these after every play.

[skullguise]

 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!

[Dusty Chalk]

Wha' abou' lasers?

[blessingx]

You know Quadriple DSD files don't really jive with craft beards.

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Also is DSD gonna kill HRx?

Edited May 31, 2013 by blessingx

[Dusty Chalk]

I think you meant Quadrupel.

[Torpedo]

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.

[Currawong]

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).

[blessingx]

Interesting read...

John Siau: Benchmark Audio Guru on DSD

http://www.realhd-audio.com/?p=74

Edited June 2, 2013 by blessingx

[Hopstretch]

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

[Dusty Chalk]

I can't decide if that's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen or the most ugly.

[Voltron]

For me, hideously ugly, and made all the worse by the fact that it is idiotic.

[tkam]

^

this

[Torpedo]

damn ugly +1

[robm321]

Looks like a cockroach.

[Dusty Chalk]

I find it's ugliness endearing.

[grawk]

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.

[blubliss]

Hard to tell at a show (Newport), but the QB-9 DSD sounded like something worth looking into.

[blubliss]

Correct.

[Filburt]

Interesting read...

John Siau: Benchmark Audio Guru on DSD

http://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.

[HiWire]

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.

[Torpedo]

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.

[jpelg]

^ this

[mikeymad]

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)...