No. As Paul said, his approach sounds better to him over others. That’s it. Not because he wants to stay in DSD.
Cookie prefers mixing in analog. I suspect it sounds better to her.
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Here’s just another hint on an album from Hunnia (with great music and sound), which was (like so many Fone albums) recorded in parallel analog (released on vinyl) and DSD128 (released as files). Good for comparisons.
Here’s an interesting article from Cookie:
@cookie, how did your findings of the DAD256 and the tape recording difference compare to your impression of the same live music (if you had a chance to listen outside the control room)? Does the tape offer an own, artificial magic or does the midrange advantage you heard, partly offer or compensate for something that’s missing in the control room’s DSD256 sound compared to live?
But I guess the live sound is again so different, that this makes little sense.
On my ride to identify the best (not only) DSD recordings in high resolution formats, I hit “Just listen records” who record in DSD256.
They (together with few others) sounded so much better than average for DSD recordings, that I got in contact with the label and got and answer of Jonas Sacks, cofounder and son of Channel Classics and NativeDSD founder Jared Sacks.
My question was, how they mix the DSD256 for sound quality reasons.
The answer was: if they can’t avoid mixing at all, they anlways try to mix analog, just sometimes if they need post processing or level changes, they use the Pyramix DXD mixing.
It will be interesting during this little research I do when experiencing superior quality, if a majority of the better sounding DSD recordings is mixed analog.
Recording skills and mixing format are still two different different topics, but both may contribute.
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A few titles they are selling can also be found in the NativeDSD site, and I wonder if they are the same recordings.
Yes they are. They have a high percentage of very good sounding recordings. Not all DSD256 recordings benefit strongly from this resolution if one previously heard them on a lower e.g. DSD64 one like I did. Also several Blue Coast benefit much and many Northstar/Turtle Records do, UNAMAS, Yarlung, Opus 3. Depends on how open and airy the recording was achieved and some labels achieve this on most recordings. What a shame that especially Chesky, one of the first recording in hires, doesn’t provide the really high resolutions and doesn’t record in DSD, as they usually have very good recording quality.