You cannot change the levels of individual elements in DSD digitally. It is a 1 bit format, and you can't change a 1 to 1.3. He's either using DXD or mixing in the analogue domain. Using analogue seems rather stupid to me given this could all be done so easily in PCM.
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You're not a recording/mixing engineer, are you? Many engineers who started in the 20th Century prefer mixing on a large-format analog console and analog outboard gear. Chris Lord-Alge's studio is based around an SSL 4000-series console, and no one complains about his results. There's nothing "stupid" about it.
I was kind of thinking the same thing - might as well get both…the SACD is hybrid too…so you get the new stereo mix in the CD layer…
No difference in sound quality between the blu-ray and SACD. I prefer the SACD, as streaming music via blu-ray to the Sonos speakers in the kitchen, results in a small audio delay. CD, DVD-A and SACD can play in my listening room and stream to the kitchen, without any audio delay. Test tones not needed, as I use Audyssey calibration.
OK so they remodulate the DSD stream to change level. You might as well convert to PCM and do it all there, you've saved nothing by the remodulation approach.
I’m an engineer (retired), and my senior project in college was a delta modulator, so I know how DSD works. The one bit simply states whether the signal being digitized is going up or down from the previous sample. In order to edit or mix that stream of bits, it has to be converted to something like PCM. This may happen invisibly in a workstation, but DSD by itself is pretty much impossible to manipulate.
I gave up on Amazon.ca. as it just became too frustrating. About 6 months ago I was waiting on 2 or 3 different items that kept getting bumped back, while others on this forum who ordered from other suppliers had no problems getting the items in question by the release date. Not sure if it’s supply chain issues or Amazon not prioritizing physical music releases, but I cancelled my Amazon orders and simply order directly from the source, whether it’s Burning Shed, Cherry Red etc. I got the orders fairly quickly, and without any issues, while Amazon was still not showing the items as available. The only item I still have on order at Amazon is the new Steve Hackett, as it wasn’t a priority for me, and I was also giving them another chance. Release date on his website was Sept. 2, Amazon “release date” is October 28. If that date comes and goes, I’ll cancel and get it from somewhere else and be truly done with them.
Several species.....& Grandchester meadows in surround would be amazing
Mine came yesterday. I bought it from Amazon US for $65.
Yup. From an interview about the 5.1 for Amused to Death: An Interview With James Guthrie Perfect 5.1 Sense Interview By Mike Mettler
Look within folders BDMV -> STREAM and locate the '00000.m2ts' file. Which has a size of: 1,024,752KB. The duration is: 5 minutes 4 seconds
So he's converting things multiple times between analogue and digital. That makes a mockery of any claim that things are being kept as DSD all the time. And it's also a dumb thing to do in my view, there are losses of fidelity every time which while minor will add up. Why not just do it all in the digital domain with PCM?
I am no expert in DSD to analog conversions, but whatever he did with Animals, it sounds great.
Indeed they do, but they could perhaps have sounded better without all this DSD<->analogue format converting. We'll never know.
Since Guthrie said, "We live in a digital world, but a lot of equipment that makes the most pleasing sound to me is still analog" that implies he tried it both ways in the past and he thought the analog equipment sounded better.
That equipment being the human auditory system, rather than any playback gear. We theoretically have the ability to hear the equivalent of 20 bits of PCM dynamic range, but only about 12 bits of that is usable for music. Only the youngest of us can hear anything close to 20kHz, let alone beyond 16kHz. If anyone says they can hear the difference between the same master at 16/44.1, 24/96+, and any variation of DSD, they most likely couldn't reliably identify them in a blind ABX test.
