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The majority of Telarc International Corporation's releases were on (generally hybrid) SACD, and are DSD recordings.[13][failed verification] Telarc often worked with early audiophile company Soundstream, and re-released many of its original Soundstream recordings in SACD format.[14] Soundstream, which made the first digital recording in the United States, recorded in 16 bit PCM at a sample rate of 50 kHz via its own proprietary digital recorder. This 50 kHz PCM format was converted to DSD for release on Telarc SACD.
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On August 28, 2013, the Acoustic Sounds label launched SuperHiRez.com (now defunct), which sold mainstream albums from major record labels that were produced with Direct Stream Digital or PCM audio formats.[17][18] On September 4, 2013, Acoustic Sounds announced an agreement with Sony Music Entertainment to provide the company's new digital download service with albums that have been produced or remastered in Direct Stream Digital format.[19]
Another format for DSD editing is Digital eXtreme Definition (DXD), a PCM format with 24-bit resolution sampled at 352.8 kHz (or alternatively 384 kHz). DXD was initially developed for the Merging Technologies Pyramix workstation and introduced together with their Sphynx 2, AD/DA converter in 2004. This combination meant that it was possible to record and edit directly in DXD,[25] and that the sample only converts to DSD once before publishing to SACD. This offers an advantage to the user as the noise created by converting DSD rises dramatically above 20 kHz, and more noise is added each time a signal is converted back to DSD during editing.
Some professional audio recorders (from Korg, Tascam, and others) can record in DSD format. Transferring this signal to a recordable DVD with the appropriate tools, such as the AudioGate software bundled with Korg MR-1/2/1000/2000 recorders, renders a DSD Disc. Such discs can be played back in native DSD only on certain Sony VAIO laptops and PlayStation 3 systems.[32] HQPlayer from February 16, 2011, version 2.6.0 beta includes support for direct/native playback from DSD Interchange File Format (DSDIFF) and DSD stream files (DSF) to ASIO devices with DSD support. Moreover, Sony produces two SACD players, the SCD-XA5400ES and the SCD-XE800, that fully support the DSD-disc format. Only the DSF format is supported. However, since most personal computers have only PCM audio hardware, DSD discs must be transcoded to PCM on the fly with the proper software plug-ins with questionable quality benefits compared to native high resolution PCM sources like DVD or Blu-ray Disc Audio.
There has been much controversy between proponents of DSD and PCM over which encoding system is superior. In 2001, Lipshitz and Vanderkooy stated that one-bit converters, as employed by DSD, are unsuitable for high-end applications due to their high distortion.[35] In 2002, Philips published a paper arguing the contrary.[36] Lipshitz and Vanderkooy's paper was further criticized by Angus.[37] Lipshitz and Vanderkooy[38] responded to the criticisms.[39] Stuart also defined sigma-delta modulation a "totally unsuitable choice" for high resolution digital audio.[40]
Conventional implementation of DSD has an intrinsic high distortion.[41] Distortion can be alleviated to some degree by using multibit DACs. State-of-the-art ADCs are based around sigma-delta modulation designs. Oversampling converters are usually used in linear PCM formats, where the ADC or DAC output is subject to bandlimiting and dithering.[42] Most modern ADC and DAC converters use oversampling and a multi-bit design; in other words, while DSD is a 1-bit format, modern converters internally use a 2-bit[43] to 6-bit[44] format.
There are several alternative ways to store DSD encoded audio as files on a computer. One option is to use DSD native file formats that have been specifically for this purpose. Alternatively, DSD can be stored in general purpose audio formats that have been officially adapted to support DSD storage. Finally, DSD audio can be embedded into PCM audio streams that do not have special DSD support. However, a special decoder is needed to recover the DSD stream afterwards.
DSD Interchange File Format (DSDIFF) is a native DSD file format developed by Philips between years 2000 and 2004 for storage of DSD recordings.[48] The format supports DST compression of the payload as well as annotations used in Super Audio CD production. A single DSDIFF file may store an entire album as a single audio stream together with markers indicating where to cut the individual tracks for the album. Some parts of the audio content may be left out entirely from the resulting SACD. The embedded metadata format is intended for mastering engineers and not consumers. For example, markers indicating beginning of a new audio track have a text field for storing arbitrary text based information. However, there is no requirement for the text to contain the title of the track. A defacto standard for including ID3 metadata in an unofficial ID3 chunk has later formed as consumers have adopted the format for storing individual tracks of DSD audio. Files containing DSDIFF data would typically use the .dff file suffix. No official media type has been registered for the DSDIFF file format.[49] Freedesktop.org uses the unofficial media types audio/x-dff.[50]
DSD Stream File (DSF) is a native DSD file format developed by Sony around year 2005.[57][58] The format is intended for storing individual tracks of DSD audio and has native support for ID3 metadata inclusion. The format defines a "format ID" field that could presumably be used to indicate DST compression. However, the only identifier defined in the spec is number 0 indicating "DSD raw". Files containing DSF data would typically use the.dsf file suffix. No official media type has been registered for the DSF file format.[59] Freedesktop.org uses the unofficial media types audio/x-dsf.[50]
WavPack is a generic audio storage format supporting various different forms of audio.[60] Compressed DSD audio is also supported by the format.[61] The DSD support was initially introduced with the release of WavPack software suite version 5 in December 2016.[62] Files containing WavPack data would typically use the.wv file suffix. No official media type has been registered for the WavPack file format.[63] Freedesktop.org uses the unofficial media types audio/x-wavpack.[64] Since WavPack supports multiple formats the suffix or mime type alone do not indicate the presence of DSD audio.
In addition to actual DSD file formats, a wire format called DSD Audio over PCM Frames (DoP) is used for embedding DSD into PCM audio streams.[65] DoP makes it possible to circumvent any PCM-only component preventing DSD capable DAC from receiving the raw DSD data required for native DSD playback. While DoP is intended to be a wire protocol used for communication between music player application and a DAC, there exists tools that can embed DoP encoded DSD into FLAC files enabling user to use a non-DSD capable player for DSD playback with their DoP capable DAC.[66] DoP is not backward compatible with PCM. Thus, a DoP stream is likely to sound broken when played back by an unsuspecting PCM-only DAC, while a DoP capable DAC can detect the presence of DSD data, extract it from the PCM and play it back as DSD.
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