11-26-2019, 11:58 PM
Good Evening All
Thank you all for your replies and sorry for not responding sooner.
After reading what has been posted I decided to convert one of my Depeche Mode albums (Violator) to 24/96 flac as a test. Played both the .dsf and the 24/96 flac files and couldn't really tell the difference to be truthful although the space saving was almost 75-80%. Also my mate couldn't tell the difference either. So I've decided to convert all my DSD files to flac. I will keep the originals though!
I used foobar to convert to wave which produced a 24/176.4 bitrate file. I noticed there were a few clicks and pops at the beginning of each track so I edited them in Audacity, normalised them to -3db and saved as 24/96 .flac. They sound very good indeed with no distortion. I also downmixed the extra tracks on the dvd's from DTS 96/24 to 24/96 flac and again normalised them to -3db. I know DTS 96/24 is a lossy format and has a 24/48 core but foobar saved it as a 24/96 wav file so what the hell! Sound quite nice. There is a difference in sound but not that much.
Is there a DAC for the Pi that plays DSD without conversion or do they all convert the files? A quick google search wasn't very helpful.
Thank you all again.
CCF
Thank you all for your replies and sorry for not responding sooner.
After reading what has been posted I decided to convert one of my Depeche Mode albums (Violator) to 24/96 flac as a test. Played both the .dsf and the 24/96 flac files and couldn't really tell the difference to be truthful although the space saving was almost 75-80%. Also my mate couldn't tell the difference either. So I've decided to convert all my DSD files to flac. I will keep the originals though!
I used foobar to convert to wave which produced a 24/176.4 bitrate file. I noticed there were a few clicks and pops at the beginning of each track so I edited them in Audacity, normalised them to -3db and saved as 24/96 .flac. They sound very good indeed with no distortion. I also downmixed the extra tracks on the dvd's from DTS 96/24 to 24/96 flac and again normalised them to -3db. I know DTS 96/24 is a lossy format and has a 24/48 core but foobar saved it as a 24/96 wav file so what the hell! Sound quite nice. There is a difference in sound but not that much.
Is there a DAC for the Pi that plays DSD without conversion or do they all convert the files? A quick google search wasn't very helpful.
Thank you all again.
CCF
