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how are audiophile dacs a thing lmao

it costs ten thousand dollars? it reproduces the signal authentically? buddy, the artist recorded the song on an aurally transparent $1 adc. no amount of dollar signs will “restore” the quality already “lost” to that

buy a fucking piano

‪the most hilarious thing in audiophile digital technology to me btw is direct stream digital. a technology that requires such an absurdly high notional sample rate that it causes serious ultrasonic noise problems, and has to be converted from pcm anyway so what's the point‬

@hikari oh so there actually are DSD-native production workflows and (as you might expect) they are basically just analog mixing workflows

since you can’t mix DSD, people producing DSD masters either produce entirely in DSD or record the tracks in DSD, convert to “DXD” (just very high sample rate PCM) to mix, and then back to DSD when they master

it’s hilarious

@hikari (the majority of DSD masters are going to be the latter because why would you do the former? okay i mean i would probably do the former but im weird)

@demize lmfao they're uninventing the DDD workflow this is incredible

@hikari to be fair I think it’s probably, like, three people in the entire world who produce anything that way

and the one of them I found said he usually prefers not to, he uses the DXD working copies usually (and I can’t say I’m surprised)

@hikari you’re not wrong. Some expense can still bring value if it’s a dac-amp and you’re putting in better components in the amplification stage. But the ones and zeros are what they are assuming the bit-depth is there.

Personally I’m surprised I haven’t heard of quantum dacs yet. Imagine the marketing of “take your music beyond ones and zeros!!!” You know like sound lol.