Sony and DSD
This is a quick hit to weigh in on the Sony annoucement that they would start selling downloads of their Columbia Records in DSD format. Link to a good news story is here . Sony's site dedicated to the products and downloads is here. Why should you care? The only way to get closer to the performance would be to steal the master tape as these were ripped right from the tapes in a format to preserves the sound of it. Also many (but not all) studios record using the DSD format. So in a lot of cases DSD is the master. And unlike CD, it is easy to get realistic sounding playback with DSD due to the nature of the decoding. The First SACD player c1999 ...for a brief period of time it looked like it might take off, but never became more than an audiophile format as the public raced over to MP3's ... Given how good the medium sounds on modest equipment, we were sad to see if fizzle in the mass market, but glad you can still get them. DSD is the downlo...