As I am a digital person for its supposed convience , it's actually anything but. The plus is I have been in it for years and have learned so much about it. Now picking the best choices of where to find the best sounding music is now my new quest . At one time any vinyl rip was horrible and analog at the same time. What this means to me is the music had an analog sole to it relaxed not dynamic where it should not be. But the overall qulality was lacking greatness that analog has. As time went on the best digital I own is from analog tape weather it's dsd or PCM . Funny how PCM gets crucified for,it's digital sound over dsd . The fact is it's the chain not just th format. What I mean is where it comes from and how it's played back. I could name dacs that do one better than the other for me but let's go before them in the chain. Our source begins in the download or rip right. So my question here is where do the best sounding recordings start from. There is plenty of pure dsd and PCM out there for us but how much of is top shelf , stunning examples of how good it can be. Not music we love but purely it's sound quality. I have learned to love so much music that is so outside of my gernerel genre because of it. As good as pure dsd is even dsd 256 , I cannot put my figure on one recording that beats out old analog converted to dsd . Now this is my findings how about yours.? Does anyone accually record on analog tape and convert when mixing to dsd 128 or even 256 ? My guess is almost none do. Now this would easily solve the mixing issue Dsd issue and it could be done in analog and then put to dsd .
I have about 36 or so vinyl rips from a really top end setup ripped to dsd 128 and many more rips of SACD to dsd 64 . although I love pure dsd the magic is in the analog beginnings for me.
Just a few songs in this category are
Elvis stereo 57 tape rip
Louis Armstrong st Jamie's infirmary vinyl rip.
Tumbleweed connection tape , love song , come down in time , talking old soldiers .
What I am looking for is proof of this theory and thoughts of others.
Al D
I have about 36 or so vinyl rips from a really top end setup ripped to dsd 128 and many more rips of SACD to dsd 64 . although I love pure dsd the magic is in the analog beginnings for me.
Just a few songs in this category are
Elvis stereo 57 tape rip
Louis Armstrong st Jamie's infirmary vinyl rip.
Tumbleweed connection tape , love song , come down in time , talking old soldiers .
What I am looking for is proof of this theory and thoughts of others.
Al D
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