Re: [SurroundSound] Re: Converting Multichannel files to DTS?

@MWC full agreement with you but I am trying to bring out the significance of the DSP in the circuit with all DAC types. Many people do not realise that this can have a bigger impact than the DAC itself, whatever the type. 

In products such as Meridian we really do no know what they are doing, as it is proprietary but they are certainly using DSP modelling to get a certain sound, so such a thing as a transparent DAC may be not be as easy to find as we think. I have a hunch that the cheaper ones are more likely to be more transparent as they have less commercial development.

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 12:15, realafrica <paul.gambia@gmail.com> wrote:

Try reconstructing a DSD signal without a filter and hear what you get. noise

It's true, but not a reason to condemn DSD, it's part of it's design, so you can't really knock the use of filters when they were always part of the way DSD DACs work.

It's true too that both PCM & DSD DAC design has come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years. The end price has come down too. I think it's great we have such a range of affordable DACs to choose from nowadays. DACs can have a signature sound that will appeal to some and not others; personally I look for a DAC that is as transparent and true to the input sound as possible. However upsampling DACs seem to be popular too, and why not set one's DAC to upsample all input to DSD128 output, or as PCM 24bit/352.8kHz if that's what floats one's boat?

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