Davina will be 44.1 kHz to 768 kHz, with two differing sample rate outputs with say 44.1 or 768 available together. This is done without SRC.
Bit depth will be user programmable, 16,24 or 32.
Rob
Thanks Rob , really good to hear. I am really looking forward to hear and possibly even record acoustic music without compromise for a listening experience even closer to the real thing, live acoustic music in a real venue, than hitherto possible. But why would you include 16/44.1 on a product intended for the recording industry?
Is there really ANYONE who still records at such low bitrates and sampling rates as a compromised standard of 30 years ago? Even in the world of POP AND ROCK?
The first attempt to make rbcd listenable for large scale classical was Reference Recordings, Prof Johnsson's hi def carrier signal based, HDCD. But imho although an important step in the right direction,it was not good enough.
With Hugo it sounds sound ok, but no more imho.
I still hear thinness and lack of true resolution and realism from 16/44.1 and even 24/44.1,unlike the effortless reproduction that I almost take for granted these days not only from direct cut LPs as in the old days, but also from hi res digital ,particularly via your DACs, provided the recording and balancing engineers have done their job correctly and not messed things up with too many and too close mics.
Phase anomalies as a result of mixing in too many mics is often a real problem.
Classical needs true hi res.
I fully understand that there are a lot of consumers who are stuck in the world of rbcd or mp3 or whatever,because that is what they know and how the music they listen to is delivered to them. And frankly most of it needs no more.
Johnny Cash or Rolling Stones will never sound good to my ears.Neither even gave a thought to good and accurate transparent SQ.
Their recordings are so full of inherent distortions that they couldn't even be considered in any relevant HI FI sense imo. Especially not played via capable DACs like Hugo Mojo or Dave and headphones like the HE1000 or Sennheiser's new stratospherically priced Orpheus.
On the contrary, the more transparent the delivery chain the more obvious ,the deficiences of the material and recording imo.
There is neither any notable dynamic range, mostly just far too loud, nor any real HF harmonics ,no real depth or width or soundstage.No subtle layers of sounds as from up to a hundred instruments as in complex symphonic music. Nor, any real low level information to be retrieved in most modern commercial stuff.There is to my knowledge NO ONE absolutely no one, in the real world of acoustic music and classical in particular who still records with a format that is so temporally/timing compromised as 16/44.1.
PS Another label that recently, but not always, delivers realistic SQ in the classical genre is Chandos, Especially their latest recordings using Merging HORUS and Ravenna mixing direct in the hall at sessions and using few and some of the best mics available.
Their two recent Raff albums are prettty good examples of how an orchestra sounds in a real hall with both natural ambience and lots of low level detail and realistic timbres captured at 24/96 ,that rbcd simply doesn't capture as realistically to my spoilt ears used to live symphonic music.
It would be really nice to hear if Davina can beat the so far best digitally recorded piano SQ I have heard, Morten Lindberg's DXD recording of Beethoven's mighty OPUS 111 piano sonata.
Very good indeed at home via Hugo and 500 watts amplification per channel into my electrostatic speakers and even more impressive via DAVE and HE1000.
Please include grand piano and other real acoustic music on your first demo recordings from Davina.
Cheers Chris currently in warm and sunny Thailand.
