DSD? Any point to it at all?

[musicjunkie917]

I highly recommend reading this thread as @jussi_laako knows way more about DSD than anyone else commenting in this thread…as you will see:

The sound of DSD

In @Rugby’s Weekly Zoom meeting the other week I was very interested to hear an explanation by @ipeverywhere (Ryan) about my description of the audible difference between PCM and DSD. I said that for me I found DSD to have advantages of a wider soundstage and better spatial cues, but there was a loss of leading edge dynamics. Ryan noted that in a PCM stream the dB or volume information can go from zero to whatever in one cycle because it is a value within the multi-bit wide signal received eac…