[Bob Lombard[_3_]]

On 7/26/2013 2:42 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
Audio_Empire wrote:
This is all fine and good, and perhaps you can even hear "some*"
difference, but it still doesn't alter the fact that the Oppo in
question still uses the same SabreDac 32 which converts DSD to LPCM
before playing it,
I don't think so: according to their white paper, they feed the DSD
data into their anti-imaging filter, which runs at a very high
frequency. There's no suggestion that they downsample it to LPCM
first; or do you have some other information?

Why would downsampling to LPCM do any harm, anyway? All the damage
has been done already during the DSD encoding.

Andrew.

Hah. In either case there appears to be some god-like hearing
involved. Personally I wouldn't buy a Sony CD/DVD player anyway, but
that has to do with their fussiness about CD-Rs and DVD-Rs; something
fishy going on there.

bl