Hi
Intellectually attracted to Hi-Rez but truly on the fence with over 2000 CD properly ripped and categorized .. I do have a few Hi-Rez (less than 20) and find them equal to slightly better than their CD counterparts... when I force myself into finding the differences and of course non-blind so I don't know. I know however that my next DAC must do HRx and PCM up to 192 KHz. I am also intellectually not a DSD fan I find the process as I am repeating myself wasteful, I don't see (on paper) not can I hear the differences over good old PCM .. There is no theoretical advantage to DSD anyway but I wouldn't mind a Playback Design as my next DAc since it does DSD too... I have heard of a few DSD downloads but haven't heard any ... We'll see what the future brings for DSD .. I doubt it will surpass PCM in term of acceptance though.
Intellectually attracted to Hi-Rez but truly on the fence with over 2000 CD properly ripped and categorized .. I do have a few Hi-Rez (less than 20) and find them equal to slightly better than their CD counterparts... when I force myself into finding the differences and of course non-blind so I don't know. I know however that my next DAC must do HRx and PCM up to 192 KHz. I am also intellectually not a DSD fan I find the process as I am repeating myself wasteful, I don't see (on paper) not can I hear the differences over good old PCM .. There is no theoretical advantage to DSD anyway but I wouldn't mind a Playback Design as my next DAc since it does DSD too... I have heard of a few DSD downloads but haven't heard any ... We'll see what the future brings for DSD .. I doubt it will surpass PCM in term of acceptance though.