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Re: [gear] one-bit field recorders from Korg

Subject: Re: [gear] one-bit field recorders from Korg
From: "Danny Meltzer" dannymeltzer
Date: Sun Oct 8, 2006 1:37 pm (PDT)
Yeah it seems like DSD.  I read the Korg page...it sounds interesting.

Danny

--- In  "Aaron Ximm" <>
wrote:
>
> Having not looked at the Korg info yet,
>
> I wonder if this is equivalent to the DSD format that Sony developed
> for SACD (super audio CD)?  Another not widely used (proprietary?)
> Sony format, this one was inteded to be the next step beyond CD and to
> compete with DVD-A.
>
> By many audiophile accounts SACD is the "best-sounding digital format"
> ever, better than 24/192. Early accounts by die-hard analog heads were
> largely of the grudgingly-this-sounds-like-the-best-of-both-worlds
>
> A coworker of mine invested in some proposterously expensive 8-channel
> DSD recorder for location sound recording (NOT field recording, it's
> luggable and runs on AC) and has just begin to play with it. No
> reports yet
>
> If it is DSD I'd be very curious to hear it, though without the
> ability to edit/author/burn/listen to SACD... hrumph.
>
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