{"id":2233,"date":"2017-08-14T16:02:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/?page_id=2233"},"modified":"2018-12-03T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:15:13","slug":"vintage-on-dsd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/?page_id=2233","title":{"rendered":"Vintage On DSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working with vintage analog music doesn&#8217;t preclude the usage of modern technologies. Quite the opposite. When it comes to digital audio, there&#8217;s one format that actually matches analog quite nicely. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dsd-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dsd-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>The DSD (Direct Stream Digital) format doesn&#8217;t allow editing because it represents the audio wave in a series of changes (&#8220;deltas&#8221;) whereas &#8220;normal&#8221; digital file formats (such as PCM \/ Wave) code the signal in absolute values. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/?p=103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We wrote a primer about the differences ..<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With DSD what you hear is what you get. No touch ups. No editing for noise reduction or clicks. And the sound is awesome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sacd_logo-300x215.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sacd_logo-300x215-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a>Sony and Philips invented DSD years ago for their system of digitally recreating audible signals for the Super Audio CD (SACD). They kept the standard locked up for a long time so it never really became &#8220;mainstream&#8221;. It is however the encoding of choice for professionals and we started to transfer our large collection of vintage tapes to DSD quite a while ago.<\/p>\n<p>We have started to re-master and transfer all of our archives to DSD. It&#8217;s the only &#8220;close to analog&#8221; format that allows us to keep the music alive for posterity.<\/p>\n<p>We will also release some excerpts for you to enjoy. However &#8211; you most likely need special software or hardware (preferred) to be able to listen.<\/p>\n<p>Windows \/ Mac:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/tascam.com\/product\/hi-res_editor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tascam Hi-Res Editor (free)<\/a><br \/>\nLinux:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/deadbeef.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DeadBeef (free)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The software tools will allow you to listen to the tunes we provide here. But they will convert the DSD data into a wave format to make it digestible for your computer. However &#8211; PCM (wave) is not the format we recorded the audio in. Any conversion of the DSD data will reduce the quality. So &#8211; please: If you want the best &#8220;close to analog&#8221; sound available, invest into a DSD capable DAC (Digital Audio Converter). Not just any DAC &#8211; it has to be able to convert DSD\/DSF data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you like to see (and hear) more vintage DSD &#8211; consider helping us offset the cost. <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/RollofoneServicesLLC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt;&gt; Enter any amount you want. Thank you. &lt;&lt;<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(PayPal)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with vintage analog music doesn&#8217;t preclude the usage of modern technologies. Quite the opposite. When it comes to digital audio, there&#8217;s one format that actually matches analog quite nicely. The DSD (Direct Stream Digital) format doesn&#8217;t allow editing because it represents the audio wave in a series of changes (&#8220;deltas&#8221;) whereas &#8220;normal&#8221; digital file <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/?page_id=2233\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Vintage On DSD<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2234,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2233","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2233\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rollofone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}