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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: The BSO and Digital Music.

Post Subject: SACD one bit processing due to Sony marketing?Posted by steverino on: 5/25/2009

I"m not an expert on SACD either but my recollection from the late 90s is that Sony went to 1 bit out of a desire for copy protection of the digital encoding. One bit is not editable in DSD and would have to be processed in PCM or analogue. Don't ask me to explain their reasoning. However it is also true that the PCM folks went into hysterics around the same time with all their even worse copy protection schemes. While I agree that SACD one bit is flawed I still hear something positive in it (that is non digital sounding)as far as transient speed and maybe a certain transparency are concerned. I wish I shared Romy's optismism concerning 88 or 1762k PCM as an archival medium. I've heard raw files at these rates (ie 88/24 or 176/24) in the recording studion and was not thrilled. They're OK and better than CD but still have a similar digital character to the CD sound albeit reduced unpleasantness. At least to my ears.

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