[Audio_Empire[_2_]]

On Friday, July 26, 2013 12:26:53 PM UTC-7, Bob Lombard wrote:
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.

Nah, just some critical, informed listening.

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.

I've never owned a Sony CD/DVD player, so I can't comment on that.
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