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> Almost nothing has ever been recorded and released using only DSD. I don’t understand; I was talking about an album without DSD. Why are you referring to alb
by thih9 4y ago
> Almost nothing has ever been recorded and released using only DSD.
I don’t understand; I was talking about an album without DSD. Why are you referring to albums produced with only DSD?
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoMy point was tha an album with DSD (only) is so rare that asking about a comparison to album without DSD is a little strange. Almost all albums are produced with digital technology that is not DSD, even the ones that include DSD.
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- thih9 4y agoI still don’t get it. Why does it matter here whether DSD is rare or not?
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoThe "distress" from the audiophile community in this case was that DSD formed a part of the signal chain from the original analog (magnetic tape) masters to their newly printed vinyl. They wanted a signal chain that was completely analog. Then, alongside that, is the belief by a slightly different set of audiophiles that DSD is the best digital format there is, and that recordings made only with DSD is as good as you can get (possibly, for some of them, better than pure analog). The difficulty with the 2nd group's belief is that there are very few recordings that exist which are pure DSD, and their beliefs about PCM mean that a DSD+PCM process is inherently flawed. Consequently, establishing the superiority of pure DSD is somewhat irrelevant, when there's almost nothing you can listen to that is produced that way.