DSD Playback

[simoncn]

(08-03-2015 10:38)beckphotonik Wrote:  I agree with Anton, there seems to be more freedom to the music with DSD. Personally I suspect it is the hard filtering needed to maintain the audio bandwidth but reject the Nyquist frequency and beyond in pcm formats that make listening to pcm less pleasurable than DSD. DSD filtering is more noise shaping so in band phase and group delay distortions are less obtrusive.

Another possibility is that the on-the-fly DSD to PCM conversion algorithms used by ffmpeg aren't "state of the art" compared with other converters such as the Weiss Saracon offline conversion software.

Also, I have read that a perfect lossless conversion of DSD64 to PCM would produce a 64-bit 352.8 KHz PCM file. Downsampling this to 24/176 will invevitably degrade sound quality.