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Bob Attiyeh has long been a favorite recording engineer and producer in our home. Her recordings are fully DSD, and where mixing has been required that could not be accomplished in the DSD domain, she transferred to high resolution analog tape (1", 30 ips, in many cases) to complete her editing, and then transferred from analog tape directly to DSD once again.Īnd we also found the supremely well recorded Yarlung Records recordings a shining signpost of the possible. She challenged and pressed the recording industry as a champion for DSD when few others were paying proper attention. Those who today value DSD recordings owe a great debt to Cookie. Her recordings in DSD educated us about what could be possible. DSD256 delivers, to our ears, a further degree of ultimate transparency and fidelity to the timbre of the instruments that subtly elude DXD.Ĭookie Marenco's Blue Coast Records recordings gave us a window onto what Pure DSD recordings could do for our enjoyment of music: transparency, dynamics, and truth to the natural timbre of the instruments. However, for us, DSD256 presents a yet higher level of audio excellence. But, as with many things in our audiophile experience, we simply may not yet have identified the artifact and, so, we remain blissfully unaware (at least for now). Some folks whose ears we trust report hearing and being bothered by PCM artifacts in DXD.
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I've written about their recordings previously and will continue to do so.
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Recordings originally made to DXD by 2L, Pentatone, TRPTK, and Northstar (to name just a few) are simply amazing. We've been enjoying DXD recordings immensely. But our enjoyment of things in the PCM domain really lights up with 24-352/DXD. No surprise to anyone here, right? We found that once we got to 24-192, things could sound very nice indeed. On the PCM side, we found that step-ups in word length and sampling rate provided us enjoyably greater resolution and transparency. Higher resolution in a poorly made recording simply lays bare the problems in the recording-no difference from our analog days. The underlying recording quality and the mastering quality will trump higher resolution any day. By this I mean files that were originally recorded directly to the DSD256 format and then maintained purely in DSD without any conversion to PCM/DXD for post-processing.įor us, higher resolutions (to 24-352 in PCM and to 256 in DSD) offer better and more enjoyable sound, all things being equal.
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And make that Pure DSD256 if at all possible. But we have found a digital format with which we are now very comfortable-DSD256.
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For us, this has meant seeking out high resolution download files.Īs you can well imagine, the variables here are as intense and varied as in the analog world. And as we've explored digital recordings, we've kept our "audiophile-off-the-deep-end" hats firmly in place, seeking the best sound we could obtain. After 45 and more years as died-in-the-wool analog listeners, we moved from an all-vinyl listening system to an all-digital listening system. Some of you may recall that Ann and I have been on a journey of discovery these past three years.