I purchased a CD with some Christmas money off ebay. I thought I was ordering the standard version of Pink Floyd's Division Bell (Great SQL CD by the way).
When I got it 8 days later from China, I found out that it is a Direct Stream Digital 24 bit DAC format HDCD. I was in the company van when I signed for it at the post office, and I stuck it in on my ride home just to have the factory cd player spit it back out at me. I got home and put it in my Alpine CDA-9835 and was VERY impressed with the sound quality.
I called Alpine and they don't even make a HU yet that reads 24bit. I was told that mine would read it (which it does) but it is compressed to 16bit. I have heard that China and Japan are a year or so ahead of us, now I believe it.
I guess this $10 CD is a good reason to buy that Denon 24bit HU. THINK
Replies (7)
ttocs on 01/4/2007 19:55:52
$10 is all? Got a link?
Ash on 01/4/2007 20:49:54
China and Japan are a year ahead of us? Heck! I guess we was wrong about all the cheap "Made In China" stuff afterall. think I better trade in some of my USA equipment for some Pryamid stuff.... GRIN
cplkittle on 01/4/2007 21:07:23
The CD was $10
Not the Denon HU, but if you are interested, here is the link to the company I bought the CD from:
http://stores.ebay.com/International-Postman
cplkittle on 01/7/2007 19:37:57
So if I buy a HU that plays this 24 bit recording, would my standard setup be sufficient to play it properly?
swez on 01/8/2007 03:25:17
If your HU has a 24 bit DAC chip, (Burr-Brown 24 bit DAC) it should play well. If not, most likely it will play this CD, but not at full capability in this CD encoding method. Only one way to find out...
Nakamichi (CD-400 and higher) has several HU models that use the Burr-Brown 24 bit DAC. The upper end Pioneers have it too.
Swez
cplkittle on 01/8/2007 21:32:42
What is the capability of amplifiers to reproduce 24bit sound. I know they don't have to convert it, the HU does all of that, but I wonder how clean the amplification will be. I guess it depends on the quality of the transistors and the switching speed. If it is even relevant.
swez on 01/9/2007 04:23:21
Should be fine as most amps go as they primarily work on Analog in the audio output section. They may use high speed digital power supplies, but the outputs are all analog.
The HU CD section does all the Digital conversions as the CD encoder does all high def/high bit rates.
Swez
When I got it 8 days later from China, I found out that it is a Direct Stream Digital 24 bit DAC format HDCD. I was in the company van when I signed for it at the post office, and I stuck it in on my ride home just to have the factory cd player spit it back out at me. I got home and put it in my Alpine CDA-9835 and was VERY impressed with the sound quality.
I called Alpine and they don't even make a HU yet that reads 24bit. I was told that mine would read it (which it does) but it is compressed to 16bit. I have heard that China and Japan are a year or so ahead of us, now I believe it.
I guess this $10 CD is a good reason to buy that Denon 24bit HU. THINK
Replies (7)
ttocs on 01/4/2007 19:55:52
$10 is all? Got a link?
Ash on 01/4/2007 20:49:54
China and Japan are a year ahead of us? Heck! I guess we was wrong about all the cheap "Made In China" stuff afterall. think I better trade in some of my USA equipment for some Pryamid stuff.... GRIN
cplkittle on 01/4/2007 21:07:23
The CD was $10
Not the Denon HU, but if you are interested, here is the link to the company I bought the CD from:
http://stores.ebay.com/International-Postman
cplkittle on 01/7/2007 19:37:57
So if I buy a HU that plays this 24 bit recording, would my standard setup be sufficient to play it properly?
swez on 01/8/2007 03:25:17
If your HU has a 24 bit DAC chip, (Burr-Brown 24 bit DAC) it should play well. If not, most likely it will play this CD, but not at full capability in this CD encoding method. Only one way to find out...
Nakamichi (CD-400 and higher) has several HU models that use the Burr-Brown 24 bit DAC. The upper end Pioneers have it too.
Swez
cplkittle on 01/8/2007 21:32:42
What is the capability of amplifiers to reproduce 24bit sound. I know they don't have to convert it, the HU does all of that, but I wonder how clean the amplification will be. I guess it depends on the quality of the transistors and the switching speed. If it is even relevant.
swez on 01/9/2007 04:23:21
Should be fine as most amps go as they primarily work on Analog in the audio output section. They may use high speed digital power supplies, but the outputs are all analog.
The HU CD section does all the Digital conversions as the CD encoder does all high def/high bit rates.
Swez
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