RRod
Headphoneus Supremus
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I appreciated the sound of the few DSD titles I listened to on a friends system. However, they are just too large to be practical for me. I just had to upgrade from 2TB drives to 4TB drives and a large library of DSD files would mandate the expenditure of substantial funds just for storage. Am I wrong about this?
Raw DSD64 needs 4x the space of Redbook (64x the sample rate but 1/16 the bits). I'd imagine compression algorithms (like DST) for DSD get you about the same space reduction as FLAC/ALAC for Redbook, so you're still going to need 4x the space comparing compressed to compressed. That's for stereo DSD, of course.