DSD vs DXD

What are the differences between the two digital audio formats?

[Brautman]

7am and we’re getting answers to our questions, thank you sir!

[odizcvw]

Thanks. I always learn something from these chats.
It is amazing the access we have to knowledge with YouTube, Wiki and Google. And the generosity of guys like Paul to share what they have learned.
Yesterday I learned enough Linux command line to make changes to my streamer that made a nice improvement to sound. What an amazing time to be an audiophile.

[nonstopgok]

I switched to merging technologies a couple of years ago. Record everything in DSD. Although I've had to give up facilities I was used to in lesser systems, it's been well worth it. I've found various ways to get around problems, so it's all become less of an issue. Personally I try and avoid DXD if I can make it work with my analogue gear, depends on the project though. Either way it sounds amazing. Alot of people I know are put off because they love there 100s of plugins but I've always been a great believer in getting it as good as possible to tape, then you don't need so much processing afterwards. Prove my point on a regular basis and am often accused of lying when I explain how little processing I've done.

[budgetaudiophilelife-long]

🙋‍♂️THANKS PAUL, FOR SHARING THIS 🤗… we look forward to SOMEDAY 😁 and we believe that…this is the best time to be an audiophile 😎💚💚💚

[stimpy]

This mornings question is quite a mouthful. There's no question that at this point I'm totally confused about what he's asking. Really doesn't matter because I don't edit.

[attilapataki]

Once we are in DXD does it have any value added to go back into DSD256?

[mostirreverent]

What’s that pass labs amp doing sneaking in the back

[LeonFleisherFan]

Is the Gabriel Mervine remastering you're mentioning in this video going to be available as DSD download?

[ThinkingBetter]

No doubt it’s awesome with PCM running at 352.8 kHz (call it DXD) being the native output format. Soon streaming services will upgrade to lossless 352.8kHz and 384kHz and Octave Records tracks can thrive with it sounding their best with modern streaming user convenience. Let it happen.

[gotham]

Which begs the question, why not get rid of the conversions, and just do everything, record, edit, and mix, in DXD?

[Andersljungberg]

saw a review regarding an Elvis album on vinyl. by Mofi in 1981 and the other in the present. in the latest version, they have used DSD, among other things. the review. says the 1981 version has more detail bigger soundstage

[mark]

There is nothing inherently wrong with PCM. The problem all along is the deficient oversampling filters. Listen to a decent NOS DAC with PCM files. No analog or digital filters. It sounds like DSD. No difference in SQ between properly dithered 48k PCM and PGGB 100M taps upsampled 384k PCM with NOS and no filters. Any difference in SQ is due to IM distortion from ultrasonic images n the analog domain.

[angelwars]

Paul, please be reasonable.
It's hardly "state of the art" as you say when folk have been capturing in DSD 256 then converting to DXD to create the finished edit master for many years now. It is possible to simply capture and edit/release in DSD 256.

[LeonFleisherFan]

But isn't Sonoma using a 5-Bit/2.82MHz so-called "DSD-wide" format (i.e. PCM in disguise)?

[shangrilaladeda]

I finally got a dac that can handle dsd

[alex_stanley]

Really? So, after all your endless ranting about the horrors of PCM, and using analog to edit, you end up getting better sound by skipping two analog conversions and using PCM instead? I'm not even an engineer, and it never made sense to me that your digital-analog-digital kludge would sound better than keeping it all in the digital domain.

[artyfhartie]

Some people will never be satisfied with the sound they have from their systems. There will be more and newer digital audio formats until it will come a day when the music companies will dump the current system and program computers to write their own music, master and edit the audio signals and output it onto a medium. All you will have to do is point a remote and click on a button. Maybe not even that.

[judenihal]

The best is an analog capture medium which records exactly what an output of an XLR output of an analog mixer/amp produces. By the way looks like somebody is still running Windows XP :p