Sorry but you have read too many promotions here. I think you need to investigate the difference between PDM and PCM. You need to understand the difference between a ladder DAC and a DSD DAC (delta sigma) internally. Also just investigate how many DSD ADC's and DACs are out there until a year ago. It may have been technically simpler to make a DSD DAC 20 years ago when Philips' came up with the idea as a cheap way to get higher bandwidth/bit rates without the overhead but since then we have had years of really accurate good quality ladder dacs.
Try reconstructing a DSD signal without a filter and hear what you get. noise.
As for a Korg, a typical headphone DAC, DAC100m uses a cirrus logic cs4398 delta sigma DAC Which has a data sheet s/n/r of 120dB yet this little beast only returns 105. That doesn't imply a shorter signal path but less quality on the output and digital tinkering on the innards.(inside) meaning the sound the designer wants you to hear and not the native sound.
The problem here is that PR is the fake news of the music world and with digital it is so easy to adjust certain parameters without unduly affecting the specifications.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 02:42, Andrej Falout <andrej@falout.org> wrote:
In actual fact a 24/96 copy of a DSD recording should (if done correctly) be mathematically indistinguishable from the original. The fact is that there is NO scientific basis for claims that DSD is better than high bitrate PCM.Correct. At least in mathematical theory. But it has no practical implications to end result.Where DSD is significantly different, is in the end result. Eg, the way that digital is converted to analogue - and that is largely because of the FORMAT, not the CONTENT.When you realize that you can turn electrical DSD electrical stream directly into sound vibrations and actually hear the sound being played back - without any electronics or electrical processing.... when one witness that, one starts understanding just how different DSD is. (Well it sounds really bad, but you can clearly hear the melody, drums, recognise human voice....)Fact of the day - making technically accurate DSD DAC is many times simpler and results in many times shorter signal path, less components and less processing - then making a technically comparable PCM DAC. And even more so on the A/D side, even the simplest DSD A/D will technically beat all but the most complex and expensive PCM DAC on the planet.(Because of which, many KORG DSD devices internally first convert all PCM to DSD, and then perform DA using DSD as input. Es example)--A.
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