One of my favorite Homebrews...
I wish we could get some Isaac Hayes form the Wizard!
I wish we could get some Isaac Hayes form the Wizard!
Listening to Now (In Surround) - Volume 2
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Wading through my January 2020 D~V batch of R & B, this one is outstanding
I really like the EQ on this one. Nice & smooth....
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And who said MIRACLES don't Happen. D~V please give us the Miracles' CITY OF ANGELS in hi res Stereo.
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An outstanding Elton/Bernie collaboration. Poignant and brilliant, IMO. And the remix is splendiferous!
Love this disc! Looks like I boosted the bass in the left surround channel a bit, but it sounds killer!
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Used to listen to I AM WOMAN on stereo vinyl back in the 70's and thanks to D~V's superb mastering, now free of Ticks 'n Pops and in stunning QUAD!
Another gem! I've been listening to a shuffle of my surround demo playlist today, and so far it's fantastic!
Donald Fagen The Night Fly
DVD-A or SACD?
Sonically awesome Elliot Scheiner mix!
DVD-A or SACD?
Sonically awesome Elliot Scheiner mix!
The way I understand it if you play the SACD as DSD out it will be converted to PCM by the AVR (if you are using bass management/room correction)
Or you can play the SACD as PCM out. It shouldn't make any difference.
The DVDA is PCM out as well. So all 3 playback methods will be PCM and should be the same.
I'm new to this and I can certainly be wrong.
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Honestly, Beefalo, I've played my SACDs both DSD out analogue into an all analogue Parasound P7 Preamp and PCM out into my Meridian 861 which converts ALL incoming signals into PCM and I've never heard a difference. To me, it has the same 'placebo' effect as turning off the display on your source player and/or pre/pro.........I'm simply at a loss to hear any 'positive' sonic effects.
Perhaps those with 'dog' hearing can.
I think you have the technical details correct. Except, why do the dsd to pcm conversion if you don't have to? Then there are on screen graphics and extras on DVD-A to consider.
IMO, if sacd is your only optical choice, go for it. Otherwise, I prefer DVD-A.
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And recorded DDD which means PCM 16.44.1. Amazing how 16 bit can sound so great when NOT confined to the brickwall filters imposed by the constraints of the compact disc. You're actually hearing what's on those PCM masters in all their glory.
Two other examples that come to mind are Nils Lofgren LIVE and The Cowboy Junkie's TRINITY SESSIONS both recorded DDD 16:44.1 and as remastered onto STEREO SACD by Analogue Productions do sound superior to their CD counterparts.
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I used to own an Auralic Vega stereo DAC that played PCM very well and DSD even better. It seems to me(and others) that the “off the shelf” DAC chips were tuned by the DAC’s designers to sound optimal for DSD. Now I have a Chord DAVE stereo DAC that sounds marginally better with PCM vs DSD. And trust me, I don’t have golden ears. And then there’s the PS Audio Directstream DAC that converts everything to upsampled DSD. Its designer, Ted Smith, sits unabashedly in the DSD camp. I don’t have any first hand listening experience to know whether or not the exasound multichannel DACs favor one format over the other. Brian Moura would be a good person to ask, though he may potentially be somewhat biased towards DSD(I’m speculating solely on the basis of his relationship with NativeDSD). For the record, no pun intended, I play all of my DV and other SACDs as DSD(not FLAC or WAV)rips.
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Steely Dan - bodhisattva
was playing around with my Mandelbrot fractal program tonight and thought how that center black figure looked like a Buddha... so of course I had to play the SD song in Quad- ☺.
Almost revere Michael Dutton in that way...
was playing around with my Mandelbrot fractal program tonight and thought how that center black figure looked like a Buddha... so of course I had to play the SD song in Quad- ☺.
Almost revere Michael Dutton in that way...
It looks like your kidneys while listening to the Grateful Dead.
Linda Ronstadt What's New?
DVD-A and SACD. Nice to have options, eh?
DVD-A and SACD. Nice to have options, eh?
The56Kid
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
Floyd and a little herb - perfect combo!All killer, no filler! This is the Guthrie mix, with both halves of "Shine On" spliced together... time to relax for a while
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The56Kid
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
And that’s some great home brew, Sean! Would love to hear an Skherbeck remix of that entire album.
Frogmort
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
Was searching for an image of 'Psurroundabout Ride' on google, and this was the 13th image shown: 
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