My first dvd-A player

Loud & Clear

It's cool, rockman, I'm just confused about how upsampling creates a kind of cure-all here. If that's the case, couldn't you upsample mp3's and get DVD-A results also? If you could upsample at a high enough rate?

F1nut

Good question. I don't know for sure, but if the MP3 wasn't compressed as hell, I think you could upsample it with good results.

John K.

It should be noted that the upsampling process, which can at best do no better than the essentially similar oversampling process, as explained here , can't actually increase the theoretical resolution present in a CD. Both processes simply artificially raise the frequency of the matter which has to be filtered out, allowing the use of a much gentler filter with little or no harmful effects. Oversampling to accomplish this(typically now 8X, resulting in 352.8 KHz)has been used in all CD players for about 20 years.

As to the relative merits of DVD-A and SACD, both of course are digitally compressed formats, as compared to the uncompressed CD format, but they use more bits and/or higher sampling rates to gain at least a theoretical edge in resolution. SACD with 1 bit sampled at 2.8224 MHz in theory has the slightest edge over a DVD-A with 24 bits sampled at 96 KHz, while a DVD-A with 24 bits at 192 KHz would have the theoretical edge. This is all very well, but quite possibly of little real significance. What may be far more important to us than bits and sampling rates are the recording techniques, mixing and mastering(or remixing and remastering of old recordings)used, regardless of what format it winds up on.

F1nut

Ummmmm, no I disagree with your sampling figures and that article. If a DVD-A at 24/192 is better than SACD then why wouldn't a CD sampled at 24/192 be better than SACD? They are not.

"Astonishingly, the upsampled CD sounded much closer in quality to the 192 khz master tape than I would have thought possible. The conventional CD was laughably bad by comparison."

That is true and what else is true is that SACD sounds much better than anything at 24/192.

dorokusai

Nothing like reading a technical article, by a manufacturer, that essentially is there to merit their own gear. Useless reading.

If SACD/DVD-A was exploding, which it certainly is not, MOON would be all over the bandwagon eventually.

faster100

Kind of a strecth from my original post

woodyjacobs

Yeah, no kidding.

I hope you enjoy the player...I too have the old sd-4800 and it is a pretty solid performer (and was too cheap to pass up when BB was closing them out last year...although you paid a little less for your new updated version).

Some DVD Audio discs that I like are:
Metallica (the black album)
Yes - Fragile
Sinatra at the Sands
Medeski Martin and Wood - Uninvisible (and if you like Jazz - well, you may like this...it is Jazz Funk with an emphasis on funk).

Woody

faster100

Cool woody Thanks , I like it so far so good.