[Arny Krueger]

"Soundhaspriority" wrote in message

"paul packer" wrote in message
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On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:41:34 -0500, "Soundhaspriority"
wrote:


It bests my Musical Fidelity $2K 192K oversampling
DAC, at 5% of the price.

That must be somewhat upsetting.

All of us have that instinct.

No, just the people who don't know digital technology and psychoacoustics
well enough.

Progress is unsettling.

It can be, for those who find keeping up to be challenging. Personally, I
relish true technological advances. As far as that goes, I relish the
pseudo-technological advances because they provide an opportunity to clear
the newly-fouled air.

But it really is a remark about SACD versus CD. Remember when
"upsampling DAC" was the buzz phrase?

Upsampling DAC was also snake oil. That's in contrast to oversampling DAC
which was a true technological advance, because it vastly improved the
price/performance of DACs.

I'm saddened that
progress in audio appears to be coming to an end, caused
by the lack of interest in the young.

Or alternatively, many people smartened up.

I am going to satisfy this niche in my brain by making
DVD-A recordings with which I can experience much of the
benefit of SACD.

The alleged superiority of the SACD over DVD-A is just more snake oil. In
fact SACD has less dynamic range for music than either 192/24 or 96/24
DVD-A.