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[tuyen]

High Resolution Audio: Is the future really low resolution?
Article By Ryan Mintz of Core Audio Technology

http://enjoythemusic...nufacture/0512/



Discuss.

[gainphile]

I reckon format is really pointless. Even converted 16/44khz to MP3 is good enough to deliver the recording.

How the piece is recorded.. now that's a massive difference. There's not even a standard around. Toto sounds piercing treble on any format

[bhobba]

Although I haven't heard it yet people whose ears I trust have and I am convinced DSD is the future. I can give more direct observations once get back to Brisbane with my Playback Designs DSD capable DAC - which is one reason I got it.

Thanks
Bill

[techspurt]

Too many non-sequiturs to make much sense. Such as a packed snowball weighs less than the amount of snow you started with. Duh?

[zenelectro]

Was that an unbiased article for enjoythe music.com. -

Or was it an ad for Core Audio Technology?

He seems to have some (intentional) holes in his theory WRT DSD versus PCM.


Yawn.

[haraldo]

I find some of this info quite misleading, to say that you have 1.7 million numbers (or parameters or whatever) per second is at best case very misleading.... a bit is not a number, nor has it been or will never be, a number can be 1, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 bit, or it can even be in 10 bits, but it's never like this becausze it practlcally must be an even number of bytes or we're just wasting space in the digital processor or cpu or whatever it is that willl process or store the number. Then to suggest that processing a 32 bit number takes longer time than processing a 16 bit number is incorrect, this all depends on the hardware architecture....

Wadia is currently making digital processors that upsamples to 1.4MHz with 32 bit samples, I don't wanna suggest that they would improve performance by going to 24 bit, it all comes at a price tag though....

There's no way that I believe that a 24 bit DAC works better or quicker than a 32 bit, I just believe there will be a price penalty for the latter.

There's a lot of assumptions in this article, some of them may be correct but some of them certainly wrong if I may dare to say so, and it's probably very well written to sell his products.....

Edited by haraldo, 06 May 2012 - 03:16 AM.

[GFuNK]

Poorly written article in general, but he raises an important point... What good is 144 dB or more of dynamic range if the noise floor on your other gear reduces that to say 96 dB!? it's always about treating the weakest link. This paradigm has application in all aspects of our hobby. I've used this analogy before, but in some cases, people still like tying Usain Bolt to a fat kid.

[lowpoke]

How the piece is recorded.. now that's a massive difference.

Couldn't agree more.