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In the Thread: The High Resolution PCM files business, where?

Post Subject: An article any of us would have written but how refreshing from the audiophile pressPosted by steverino on: 5/23/2014

I agree that that article was one of the few that I would have been happy to affix "Steverino" to. I know that Romy has minimum high regard for SACD and I am not particularly keen on it myself. But since I only have about 75 CDs/SACDs I have never seen the logic of getting the type of CD player that Romy has. However, I must say that the only SACDs that impressed me as recognizably superior to the CD/DVD regardless of mastering quality were the Abkco Rolling Stones SACD hybrids. Lord help me but those actually had some transients that analog would be hard pressed to capture despite their odd soundstage. Of course CD doesn't even bother trying to capture transients and is happiest with test tones of seven seconds each. Anyway I have found with the more lowly CD and SACD players I am consigned to that the ones with true DSD output stages do sound better than players with hirez PCM conversion output stages. Not mega better but noticeably better.

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