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If you read my message a little more carefully, you will see that it is not a personal attack. In fact, I tell him that it would be great if he could make a comparison because at least to me, I am very interested. You declare yourself a fan of Ifi and that's not bad. I myself really enjoyed the black label and I am in a post from an Ifi DAC, because I have a real interest in the product. For my part, I will greatly appreciate if you make a comparison between black label, signature and Neo. And if it also expands to even more products that you have been able to try, I will have to include your publication in favorites
my apologies. I did hastily read your post. I stand corrected and appreciate your input and ideas
I am quite sorry and I should not have disrespected you. I took a long break from this site for the very reason I did get personal attacks via PM that were let us say unprofessional for my review of the original iDSD Micro thread that is still going strong and one of the largest threads on the site. It got very very personal, with vulgarities insinuating I know %$^$^% about anything and should go away. So I still have a certain sensitivity.
But in my absence I have learned to thicken my skin and not think too much about it. What people who don't know me, my background, classically trained musician who has perfect pitch etc. just doesn't hurt my feeling too bad anymore. I just got a little irritated by a previous poster. And I should not have taken it out on you. Any questions, advice or input is greatly welcomed.
I am putting together what I THINK may be a novel review site. I can't give you many details because I don't want copycats to get the drop on me but there will be MAJOR incentives to read and/or join that may be more generous that any review site ever made. Plus I will be taking advantage as one of the first 'amateurs' to actually have access to the Audio Precision measurement suites. Now, they won't necessarily be comparable to other sites that use AP like Stereophile or even manufactures like iFi that have AP in the lab. I will be using the best third party AD/DA I can afford and am in the middle of raising the approx. 7 to 10 grand I need to get started. I want to surpass other blog sites that use 1000 dollar range measurement equipment that is very good to a point, but I want as much resolution as I can possibly get so we can really see more of the actual device being measured than the performance floor of the AD/DA. It won't be AP hardware level, no. But I think it can still provide great value and surpass the resolution of similar sites.
Also of course I have unique ideas on audio tech myself that I think may be interesting. From 10 years of reading every report I could get on new tech like DSD, high rez PCM, DSD editing systems, how they really work, research into Pyramix recording and Horus ADC, how they have made Pyramix just an INCREDIBLE platform on which to record with even 'DXD' mix modes running at 24 bit 1.4 Megahertz 2's complement PCM which in all honest for editing DSD256 can have just about as an amazing slow rolloff to Nyquist with no noise problems at all considering how much room there is in DSD256 to distribute the noise shaping. Its a stunning system. These are the kind of things we will talk about and have interviews with top guys in the industry.
My own views and understandings on audio have changed a lot of course over the years, but I am confident in the knowledge I have obtained from personal research and direct teaching for Thorsten Loesch of iFi himself, who was more than generous to explain their processes in the early years, and the other major source of my understanding of DSD was primarily made on my own studying every document I can find, after Thorsten explained to be just how simple a 1 bit DSD delay line with multiple one bit streams delayed by a clock pulse creates a moving average filter that maintains the original DSD bitstream in every stream (in the case of the iFi the Burr Brown chip has an 8 level bitstream that goes direct to the bit switches which voltage values are the analog equivalent of taps in a digital FIR moving average filter).
Then I found that all my research on DSD and understanding lined up exactly with what Jussi (Miska) of HQPlayer and Signalyst is doing. In this realm folks are working in the thermometer code or unary code world in DSD of all number of simultaneous bitstreams. It is essentially multiple single 1 bit streams at once to create multi-bit delta sigma. My only separation from Miska is when the system is processing 1 bit DSD (His open source DAC design is a 32 level designed to operate most effectively at higher speeds than DSD64 or even DSD128 to maintain the best impulse response) Miska is calling it multi bit DSD. At this point I am just calling that 1 bit DSD filtered by a 32 tap FIR filter
BUT his point is ABSOLUTELY correct that it can be easily also used to convert true Multi-Bit Delta Sigma straight from the ADC with no need whatsoever to EVER go to a single bitstream. That is the holy grail. With scramble code and linearity that R2R Ladders could only dream of. (And 1 bit DSD too for that matter haha)
I really hope this is where audio is heading. Less conversion. Give us the raw multi level bitstream straight from the ADC. Don't decimate it PCM first or throw out massive amounts of actual resolution by outputting it as 1 bit DSD. That multi bit DSD bistream is now editable (I still think PCM will still dominate in the edit, but now we can have true Delta Sigma editing with no conversions like Sonomas's DSD wide. I hope I haven't lost you. Then there would ne NO need to re noiseshape back to 1 bit with these discrete hardware DACS that are basically Digital FIR filters rendered with discrete parts in the analog domain like flip flops, shift registers and switches with actual voltages combined at the end rather than numbers that still need to be converted to voltage.
Anyway, this is the kind of review site I will be publishing someday. We will have equipment reviews of ALL types, mostly HEAD-FI stuff but not always, we will have recording reviews (again I have a degree in classical piano performance on a full free 4 year ride for performance excellence so I know a 'bit' about the music review thing)
And I can't tell you the really BIG attraction yet. That is later.
And again, sorry for attacking you. And for hijacking my own apology to talk about me
. Maybe this issue will motivate iFi to find a solution? Or maybe the demand is not big enough to warrant them to create a firmware with different device ID's. Will wait and see...