That's the thing..they're talking about a very different thing (DSD vs PCM), not trying to prove anything with regards to 16/44.1 vs 24/96..
Benchmark has no horse in this race..they do both DSD and PCM..the guy is explaining his honest opinion based on scientific facts (not that i understand them
, I'm not an electrical engineer)
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MW: Wasn’t archiving their whole reason for coming up with it in the first place? It was going to be used to take their analog masters in their vault and putting in a format that they thought would preserve the most fidelity, right?
JS: Yeah. And conceptually it looked like a simple approach. And, DSD significantly outperformed the 16-bit PCM systems that were common at the time. As a distribution format, DSD is definitely a big step above 44/16 CDs, and we want to give people the best possible playback of the wonderful DSD recordings that already exist.
MW: And they tried to put in the successor to the CD and that’s where we got a format war.