In article ,
Audio_Empire writes:
In article ,
wrote:
One might ask why high rez matters beyond a marketing plan. This when cd
blue book is not demonstrated to be distinguishable from it.
Sony has a new line of digital hardware that stores and plays most high rez
formats.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-57...about-high-res
olution-audio-again/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title
One thing that they don't say is whether these new Sony
"High-Resolution" Players will handle the DSD format or not. These look
like "me too" products to me.
According to the Sony press release link in the article:
"The flagship model, part of Sony?s ES (Elevated Standard) line,
HAP-Z1ES Hi-Res HDD Music Player features a one-terabyte hard disc
drive and DSD Re-mastering engine to convert and enhance virtually any
music files to DSD (5.6M) quality. As with all of Sony's ES products,
build-quality and sound performance technics have been instituted
including, Analog FIR filter, low-phase noise liquid crystal
oscillator, large capacity twin transformers and many more."
It goes on to say all the other new models can play DSD too.
http://blog.sony.com/press/sony-intr...e-and-quality/
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