welcome to the truth
dsd is the future, severly smokes pcm in quality.
i would choose dsd clearly over 722 pcm . embrace the future now.
Take it easy man. You have not even compared according to your own statement and here you state something as a
TRUTH.
Personally I will save my judgement until it is based on experience. Just to put it into perspective, yes some recorders does not sound bad. Most of the bad ones use PCM. This does not mean that all PCM recorders sound bad.
My experience so far is that:
- the 722 sounds very close to what is input to the unit. Not quite as close as the combination of Millenium HV3D + Lavry Blue converters that I have in the large rig.
- very close to what is input is what I strive for, sounding good then is more of an estetically pleasing distortion. Sort of like the distortion you get playing electrical guitar through a fuzz unit, very right sometimes, very wrong at other times. If that is what dsd is about, I say no thanks. (Not that I believe that).
- the AD unit is not the most important part of my recording chain. I generally sort them in the following order, remember all my stuff is, hmm, "a bit above average".
1) the talent
2) the room (as I record almost exclusively acoustic stuff)
3) mic placement, a few feet of movement may be the difference between useable and really good
4) the mics (2, 3 and 4 goes together as mic placement is dependant on the mic which is dependant on the room)
5) the preamp and ad-converter
Gunnar
