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Originally Posted by Shadowman82
We're not interested in your damn AES study in this thread Ruined .
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Its relevant to answering your question. I did not bring it up by name, but referred to it in general in order to accurately answer your question.
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They way I'm running my SA-CD is via analog and it runs in the Pure Direct Mode on the receiver which means there is no processing being done so I have to assume I'm getting DSD as it was meant to sound .
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Pure Direct is going to harm the final sound more than it helps, because if it is truly direct you lose all of your bass management settings, delay times, room eq, etc which will have much more audible & negative of an impact on the final sound than a PCM conversion would have. Pure Direct seems like it would be great, because you are getting pure unprocessed master; but, unfortunately since we don't live in an aneochic chamber with all speakers same volume & distance you *need* the processing in order to properly balance/eq/bm/align the channels. Even if you had 5 completely full range speakers at identical distances and a sub, you'd still audibly benefit from the processing to balance out the reflections and frequency dips/spikes of the room.