Ok

Not really chink related but what is this dsd meme?

decodes via filtering rather than a traditional dac

well, if done right

aka garbage <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

otherwise its just converted to PCM

yeah its pointless

FLAC is fine and always has been fine

Thx wind

nice try

Yeah they disabled emotes

for good reason

Pornographic emotes <:alithink:327930371796893698>

Anyways

So it skips filters you say?

what

no

Is it something like skipping software decoding and sending it straight to the Jack?

no

The Wikipedia page isn't clear enough <:alithink:327930371796893698>

its essentially pwm, and decodes via filters

And these filter things?

different to the stepped pcm decoding

wdym

What are the decodes with "filters" thing?
That's what I was asking

you decode the waveform with a lowpass filter in essence

Aahh

its all digital shit

and is useless unless you have a dac that can even decode it

but you cant hear the difference between pcm and dsd anyway

Yeah I'll stick with flac or other shit

It's completely useless then

nah

it makes sony money

Hahaha

Right

same with mqa

except mqa is legit harmful

Mqa was a method to put 24 bit 96khz into a 16 bit 44.1khz file?
Tidal has that as a "master" option

nah its just more retarded marketing

its essentially flac, but anything above 22k is lossy

but you cant hear that high unless youre fresh out the womb anyway

Yep

except it also has a ton of DRM included

and any DAC that decodes it fully is in the 1k+ range

which is fucking retarded

its literally just there to make money

I used it while streaming tidal I don't know

Redpill me on audio HEKTIK I believe in you

wat

i mean, its fine on tidal because it seems like theyre actually remastering the albums, which is good

audio was a mistake

^^^^

but then theyre using a trashy DRM cucked format

also im almost certain tidal has some weird DSP going on and its audible

but i dont stream anyway so its not like i care

I want tidal to live on longer but it's not looking that way

nah i'd be okay with it dying

theyre shitty mqa shills

but its a business so i can see why they did it

Nah man tidal offers some quality audio

their masters are good but their format and business practices arent

^

spotify on the other hand is the opposite

most of their releases sound like shit

but they have a super wide range and arent using dumb business practices

You can pretty much hear some albums with treble artifacts

you can hear it on all of them

how's Google Play Music?

unless youre at the highest premium bitrate setting, everything will sound lossy

never used it

Good mate of mine swears by it

seems good since you can upload your own music

i think it might only be 192 tho

which is kinda shitty

i just use spotify tbh

i'd use it if they had not shit masters and offered lossless

even not shit masters and 320/v0 would be acceptable

you can upload with spotify too

though its kinda fucky

@HEKTIK their upload music feature literally just matches your music with a copy on their servers

o

gay

and it's capped at 96kbps on mobile

All music uploaded to Google play will result in your files getting converted to mp3s
If you upload a flac it gets converted to 320kbps mp3 when you stream it

ew

also mqa isnt that epxensive these days

thats fucking trash

yeah ik

you can get a mqa dac for like 300gbp in the uk

96k is disgusting

that wont do the full unfolding @bentech

the meridian explorers are cheap

I used to just stream my music from OneDrive using CloudPlayer before I had a MicroSD card

but they are only doing first level unfolding

96kbps of lower is acceptable if you used opus 1.2

yeah but the Samsung microsd sounds too cold and harsh

opus is good at low bitrate

Nice meme windatica lmao

but i assume gpm is using mp3 or something like vorbis