Copland - Orchestral Works, Vol 1 - Poster's Note.txt
Source: Rutracker (?)
Processing: Extracted 2 channel files from SACD ISO DSD using Foobar with SACD plugin at 64bit fp, to 24bit 44 KHz 2 Channels & PCM Gain + 4 DB. Removed short clicks at track boundaries with very short fadeins and fadeouts using Audition.
Label: Chandos
Personal remarks on on DSD SACD: Opinions on what to do with SACD files vary among audio collectors. Some say kept the original SACD or lossess DSD file and post them. Others want the files ripped to PCM, but the question is, which combination of bitdepth, sampling rate, channel number, and PCM encoding codec do you want (2488 is most commonly used)? Generally I rip medium and large scale works from SACD to 2444 2 channel and delete the ISO (to save space). DSD is cumbersome to work with, since it is defective by designed, meant to be hard to pirate. If you really care about high resolution, lossless audio in 2 and 5.1 channel variations, the Dolby Digital & DTS Blueray codecs (not AAC) used for films are awesome? Why are we still mainly limited to lossily encoded 2 channel music at 1644KHz. CD audio is an 80s format, and MP3 is just a degraded CD audio master. DSD has a dynamic range of ~120 DB (equivalent to 20 bit PCM), is a 1 bit format so has to be interconverted in order to be edited (why not record to PCM in the first place?), and has a very high amount of ultrasonic nosie due to noise shapined dithering Seriously, it has not one advantage over 2496 PCM, yet audiophiles are deluded themselves into believing in it's superiority; they even convert vinyl rips to DSD, believeing that doing so somehow magically improves the quality. Movie viewers are now being treated to 7.1 3-dimensional Atmos sound; music listeners will miss out again.
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