It may result very acceptable for movies (getting those effects) but definitely not for top quality music reproduction. Using a mixed bag of speakers for front, center and back channels never gives satisfactory audio results. It is my practical experience that you can only squeeze out maximum MCH 5.1 sound quality using a consistent choice of speakers (same brand and even model range). With my setup all visitors can hear it doing A/B blind tests. For the excellent SACD format it seems that these innovations just came too late which is a real pity as the quality difference is a lot easier to perceive. The accuracy and phase jitter of the clock oscillators feeding a DAC was found to play a huge role in sound reproduction. Now 30 years later this all changed as not only the quality of the DAC's and AMP's improved but also the clock circuitry used with it made many improvements steps. This caused a lot of debate if DSD was really superior to PCM (CD SACD). Producing DAC's that could handle the DSD format well did not really exist yet and very few people having a quality 5.1 audio setup to truly enjoy MCH. ![]() SACD was maybe developed and marketed too early in time by Philips/Sony. Truly enjoying MCH music and SACD playback! SACD's sales almost came to a hold with just a few small labels still producing them for a very specific audience. MCH SACD albums always use DST compression to make them fit on the DVD layer. To make bigger contents fit on the SACD layer this may be compressed using DST (Direct Stream Transfer). ![]() The exact content/playback capabilities are always displayed on the disc and labels accordingly. ![]() So a HW based SACD player lets users then select CD, 2CH or MCH playback for those albums having all three on them. The SACD layer has mostly 2CH (=Stereo) tracks but may optionally have MCH (=Multi Channel 5.1) tracks additionally. There are a few DSD128 and even fewer DSD256 original studio SACD's with higher sampler rates. SACD discs are commonly Hybrid with a normal CD player first layer for backward compatibility playback on ordinary CD-players and a second SACD layer (DVD type data layer) for SACD playback in DSD64 1-bit sample format on specifically SACD capable players. You are just converting music and don't need to worry about sound quality.Introduction to the SACD disc basics and options But, it is rather a matter of personal preferences than sound quality. Since the beginning of the Audiophile Inventory, 5 resampling filter generations were designed.ĪuI ConverteR gives you several options for resampling characters (resampling filter modes). And we continue the studies to find the best conversion ways. It is more than 12 years of work and more than a hundred thousand experiments. įor the best result, we carefully and manually minimize distortions as low as we're able for each of these filters individually. An audio converter has number of conversion modes: input/output combinations of sampling rates, bit depths, DSD/PCM modulations.ĪuI ConverteR contains individual resampling filters for each of combinations of input/output sampling rates.ġ125 resampling filters = 15 input x 15 output sampling rates x 5 filter modes.
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