Re: [SurroundSound] Re: "Ave you got it yet?" No, only the Hub has it.

Never had the 3340 but instead got an Akai GX630 DSS which is very similar but purported to be better sounding. I do believe AoQ has the same one for playing the Q4's that we cherish, so you should know the sound.
As for the DSD being better - unless you have a DSD DAC which most of us don't - you won't hear true DSD only an approximation of it. My own Denon I think really enhances DSD but appears to leave PCM as is.

Moving on there is a clear audible difference between the SACD and BD on the #5.1. Some of this may be down to levels and the audible affect when comparing. The PCM does sound heavier on the bass, I've not done enough A/B'ing to  say more but the DSD appears to enhance certain sounds but also has the "Hotel California" veil (compare SACD to DVD-A).

The question is how much of the article is absolute and how much is BS. Surely if the mixdown of the#5.1 would have been done in PCM (as no one uses DSD at this stage) then the first master would be PCM?

Now what is alluded to in the article is that the stereo version was DSD and I can relate to that as at the time of the first SACD remaster (which  this is) it was in the period of the big push on DSD, which we now know to have been a poor decision.

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