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    Quad dsd....on the Golden Gate

    NativeDSD files are hosted on Amazon Web Services S3 platform, which has seventeen server sites world wide. There's two in the USA, (three actually, but one is Gov), one in Vaginna, and one in California. All servers have local copies of of all NativeDSD files. There's nothing special required...
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    DSD Battle Royale!

    I'm enroute in Amsterdam returning from Budapest where Channel Classics recorded the Budapest Festival Orchestra playing Mahler Symphony 3, recorded both with the Grimm AD1 at 64fs and the Horus at 256fs. The microphones and their placement used for each setup were very different, for the end...
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    Welcome to the world of mastering :)
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    The track data (PQ markers and metadata) are independent of the .dff/.dsf music data, and are treated and stored in the player as TOC information for the entire album, not as read along side the music. So the player knows from loading the SACD where the various track locations exist.
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    I don't know, but I believe so. Bruce would certainly know. I do know from my Pyramix and Sonoma experience that the PQ markers are common to both the CD and SACD layers. I'm unfamiliar though how and where an SACD player control system obtains its information.
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    Believe me, that's exactly what's happening on post 191. The two pair of stereo tracks are not time aligned on that Pyramix screen shot. Look closely and compare the even number and odd number tracks, they're not identical after the Sonoma fade point. I have no clue what Bruce did in this...
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    Because the fade-in occurred prior to the track start marker on the SACD, so therefore wasn't included in the PS3/SACD_extract track. That was the point of my explanation.
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    I explained the why of that to miguelito in post #207.
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    Track start and stop timings for SACD rips performed by PS3 and SACD_extract (or similar software), are determined by the PQ markers embedded in the cutting master for SACD production. Those markers are intended to run the SACD player display metadata, and have no actual conection to the music...
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    DSD vs PCM

    But that's exactly the point I'm trying to make; there's no such thing as a PCM/DXD A/D converter, with the exception of the 10+ year old Pacific Microsonics PM1/2 192KHz A/D converter. All professional A/D converters are Sigma-Delta Modulator front ended, yielding a PDM bit stream(s). Any PCM...
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    DSD vs PCM

    Yes, absolutely. And unlike PCM, both are valueless, and therefore need to be converted into a digital value based system/format to be process-able. That's the virtue of DXD, but at a cost of a perceivable spaciousness loss.
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    DSD vs PCM

    Hi Orb, DXD is 24 bit 352KHz PCM. In all instances, it is derived from a Sigma-Delta Modulator operating either 1-bit, or multi-bit Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) as the front end of an A/D converter unit. DXD is currently the best option for highest quality post processing sweetening...
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    Bogus Downloads!

    That's one of the advantages of recording in DSD; +6dB of headroom. It's not like tape saturation, which I don't believe is all that graceful, but is the difference between 50% modulation (established as 0dB in the early development stages of DSD/SACD), and 100% modulation (+6dB). The distortion...
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    Bogus Downloads!

    Hi Bruce, While we really appreciate the mention of nativedsd.com being a Digital Content Provider (a download site business), I'd like to clarify we're just an example of a DCP (Digital Content Provider). and not one of the subject DCP's of this "bogus downloads" thread. We also receive the...
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    Recommend Windows Software to convert SACD ISO and DSF files to (tagged) flac

    JRiver does play ISO DSD files, but I don't know if it will convert them to PCM. You can use sacd_extract.exe to convert from ISO to either dff or dsf, then Audiogate. Google it, and also get Ted's SACD Ripping Guide while you're there.
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    DXD versus DSD

    Well, you're right. DXD was not meant to be a 24/352KHz PCM release format, It's a professional post processing format for DSD recorded content. And yes, 704KHz and 1.4MHz PCM are just month's away, again as a post processing tool for 128fs and 256fs DSD recorded content. The 8:1 difference from...
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    DXD versus DSD

    Yes, I read it the same way. What the author doesn't understand, and Morten doesn't tell, is that there is no way to record in DXD. There's always a delta-sigma modulator (think DSD or DSD-Wide) front-ending all DXD capable A/D converters. All DXD content is a conversion from either 1-bit, or...
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    Analog vs. digital music: What's better, and who cares?

    Yarlung Records has recently transferred twenty of their original tapes to 256fs DSD. Nativedsd.com is previewing two tracks from the two albums Smoke & Mirrors: Vision, and Suryodaya. These tracks are offered free as Tracks 09 and 10 on the Just Listen label of demonstration tracks, in both the...
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    Yarlung Recordings

    Yarlung Records has recently transferred twenty of their original tapes to 256fs DSD. Nativedsd.com is previewing two tracks from the two albums Smoke & Mirrors: Vision, and Suryodaya. These tracks are offered free as Tracks 09 and 10 on the Just Listen label of demonstration tracks, in both...
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    Tascam anounces New DSD Recorder!

    Hi Bruce, Gus has a driver for Win7/32 bit for the Sonoma. I've been running it for some time on the same PC platform simultaneously running Pyramix 9.1.4 32 bit. Tom
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    The ***Unofficial*** Multichannel DAC Thread

    Bruce, is the Audirvana in lieu of Pyramix Native with ASIO? Does the ASIO driver eliminate the need for Pyramix Native, and does it support DSD? Sorry for the dumb questions; I use MassCore, so I'm completely unfamiliar with the capabilities of the ASIO driver.
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    PCM to DSD...the new PS Audio DAC

    I won't ruin you day Orb, honest. I believe the debate on this thread is about semantics. Thinking that multi-bit PDM (that which goes on inside most DAC chips when fed a DSD (1-bit two level bit stream) is PCM. j.phelan is correct in that many DAC chips transcode the 1-bit two level bit...
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    PCM to DSD...the new PS Audio DAC

    Please define SACD player. Name a couple. Then please define PCM.
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    PCM to DSD...the new PS Audio DAC

    Learn. Do the research, the 30,000 foot view is not difficult. Here's some starter links. Do the table on the embedded.com link, and you'll understand more about DSD that the vast majority of "experts". DSD is as analog as FM radio, of which it resembles. But since it's bounded into/by two...
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    PCM to DSD...the new PS Audio DAC

    Actually, DSD is analog. It's a 1-bit two level pulse density modulation (PDM) process where the bit density is proportional to the modulating signal level. There's no digital value(s) associated with the bit stream like PCM. Only the varying density of the clock bits. PCM is like frames in a...
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    United Home Audio Phase 11S deck has been ordered

    Those Fonè recorded in DSD now also available as the original DSD Edited Master in a growing catalog of twenty released downloads: https://fonerecords.nativedsd.com/
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    DSD Battle Royale!

    Adding to Bruce's library of DSD test and demo files, nativedsd.com has constructed a new label named Just Listen to house the site's labels sample files. These include tracks recorded natively at 256fs, 128fs, and 64fs DSD, with some also adding up and down converted DSD bit rate, and a few...
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    Free DSD and DXD sample files

    Hi Andrew, The Channel Classics server is Channel owned, residing in a data center in Amsterdam. The nativedsd.com server is actually Amazon Web Services S3 cloud, based in proprietary data centers world wide. Your download speed is largely only limited by your ISP service. Also, we re-sliced...
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    Free DSD and DXD sample files

    Thanks Andrew, that's why we built Just Listen, to just facilitate investigation and discussion of this type. What we don't have yet, and hope to soon is a uploading of an acoustic recording session where both 64fs and 256fs were independently tracked. Gonzalo Noqué of Eudora, who provided the...
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    Free DSD and DXD sample files

    A good question I can't answer. I used the Merging Technologies DSD Converter app contained in Pyramix for the up conversions from 64fs to both 128fs and 256fs, plus the DXD. Dominique Brulhart, who is the software manager at Merging would be the best place to start...

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