Editorials

Neil Young and Ponomusic announced a software application recently that lets any Pono owner "process" any "high-resolution" tune in their Pono library into a variety of formats and downconversions. ...

Yesterday's post presented a few ways that record companies produce and release DSD recordings. You can check out the entire post yourself by clicking here but simply put I laid out two approaches: convert source high-resolution PCM files to DSD through an analog conversion chain (D/A/A) or record directly to DSD and then do multiple conversions in order to mix and process the material in the analog domain. The sonic results of all this bouncing back and forth between analog and digital is a reduction in the fidelity of the ultimate file. Why bother?
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Paul McGowan and I sat in his newish demonstration room last Wednesday and listened to a variety of high-resolution source material. I admit I was anxious to hear some of my favorite 96 kHz/24-bit PCM stereo files through his elaborate, high-end system. ...