Trust Your Ears - Listen & Compare

Passionate music freaks have been searching for quite a while now for ways to compare digital audio-formats. Up to now, it’s been pretty difficult to find recordings from the same source made under standardized conditions using the same, reproducible technology in five different formats.

For our demonstration, we selected a large mechanical 16” cylinder music box and an analog magnetic reel-to-reel tape. Both sources were able to be recorded identically and without losses five times in the following formats:

44.1 kHz, 16-bit (CD)

96 kHz, 24-bit

192 kHz, 24-bit

2.8 MHz, 1-bit (DSD-64=SACD)

5.6 MHz, 1-bit (DSD-128)