I guess you can't believe everything you read...

Posted by Charles Hansen (M) on May 2, 2006 at 19:27:17

In Reply to: Make it two posted by racerguy on May 2, 2006 at 15:07:33:

Everything I've read had good words for the PM digital filters (I missed reading the Stereophile review of the SimAudio the first time around.) Now you are offering a confirmation that they are perhaps not all they are cracked up to be. (I can't discount your opinion since, as an owner of an Ayre C-5xe, you are obviously a man of impeccable hearing and taste!)

As always, the best way is to listen for oneself, but I've never had the opportunity. When we started our first digital project, we ruled out the PMD-100 as it didn't offer support for the 96 kHz sample rate of our DVD player. When we were developing our CD player they had just replaced the PMD-100 with the (very!) short-lived PMD-200 that never really reached production status.

I've always preferred the sonics of the "slow rolloff" digital filters as pioneered by Wadia. The PM digital filters were pretty much at the opposite end of the spectrum, with a very high number of taps and a very sharp rolloff. So maybe it isn't surprising that some people don't like them as well as some other (presumably slow rolloff) digital filters.

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Topic - Pioneer DV-45A and HDCDs???? - VICJ-60213 18:31:18 04/30/06 (15)

All CD/DVD players can "handle" HDCD discs - racerguy 20:16:04 04/30/06 (14)

So which CD/DVD players decode HDCD discs well? - Joe M 04:57:16 05/01/06 (12)

Depends - Christine Tham 01:09:21 05/02/06 (10)

Where do you come up with this stuff? - Charles Hansen 07:22:47 05/02/06 (8)

Re: Where do you come up with this stuff? - Ted Smith 10:03:11 05/02/06 (7)

Another example - Christine Tham 22:32:32 05/02/06 (2)

Re: Another example - Alex Peychev 01:19:28 05/03/06 (1)

Which Denon player(s) are you talking about? - Christine Tham 05:38:37 05/03/06 (0)

Thanks for the info - Charles Hansen 14:21:41 05/02/06 (3)

Make it two - racerguy 15:07:33 05/02/06 (2)

I guess you can't believe everything you read... - Charles Hansen 19:27:17 05/02/06 (1)

well ... - TBone 21:07:15 05/02/06 (0)

Re: Depends - The Sound Guy 03:43:37 05/02/06 (0)

Re: So which CD/DVD players decode HDCD discs well? - racerguy 07:41:46 05/01/06 (0)

Re: All CD/DVD players can "handle" HDCD discs - VICJ-60213 20:46:09 04/30/06 (0)

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I guess you can't believe everything you read... - Charles Hansen 19:27:17 05/02/06 (1)

well ... - TBone 21:07:15 05/02/06 (0)

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