DSD vs PCM .. Truth or Myth

wasn’t DSD originally developed as a digital Archive file format to archive digital masters? I could have swore I read that in Mix or Sound on Sound magazine a few years back.

Yes think I remember something like that, designed so PCM original masters "were" to be converted for storage space reasons? Thank god, it never happened where the original PCM versions could have been deleted.? What a catastrophe that would have been.

Just remember this from Mojo Music.
" When a PCM file is played on a native DSD single-bit DS converter, the single-bit DAC chip has to convert the PCM to DSD in real-time. This is one of the major reasons people claim DSD sounds better than PCM, when in fact, it is just that the chip in most modern single-bit DACs do a poor job of decoding PCM."

Cheers George

DSD vs PCM .. Truth or Myth

Excellent article, this is the part that rings true to me, every time I come up against it.

" When a PCM file is played on a native DSD single-bit converter, the single-bit DAC chip has to convert the PCM to DSD in real-time. This is one of the major reasons people claim DSD sounds better than PCM, when in fact, it is just that the chip in most modern single-bit DACs do a poor job of decoding PCM."

Cheers George