DSD – Then, Now and Tomorrow
DSD – Then, Now and Tomorrow
Presented by Blue Coast Records
California Audio Show, Burlingame Crowne Plaza, Peninsula Ballroom
Direct Stream Digital (DSD) is a one bit recording format with 2.8 million parts per second developed by Sony Music over a decade ago. Originally, it was intended for the SACD consumer disc that elevated the listening experience in home listening systems and offered stereo and surround playback on the same disc. Overshadowed by a world taken over by mp3, DSD was overlooked by the consumer, but not by the professional audio engineers. Today, there is a resurgence of interest for DSD and SACD.
Labels like Blue Coast Records have created methods of delivering DSD audio files directly to the consumer. Korg has allowed it’s conversion software, AudioGate, to be downloaded for free simplifying listening in the home. Super Audio Center, Playback Designs and others supply professionals and consumers with devices for recording and playback.
Some of our distinguished panelists were involved with the original development of DSD for Sony. Others are active engineers recording using DSD as a format or creating platforms for digital delivery to customers around the world. After a brief history of the format, we sill discuss why DSD is an exceptional format for consumer audio and expect a lively question and answer exchange with the audience.
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Cookie Marenco -- moderator
Blue Coast Records founder, president and producer/engineer Cookie Marenco is a five-time Grammy nominee and former A&R representative during the “golden years” of Windham Hill Records. She is co-creator of E.S.E. (Extended Sound Environment), a proprietary recording technique for stereo and surround sound, and was a pioneering advisor and recording engineer for Liquid Audio, first company to release digital downloads on the Internet. Marenco’s OTR Studios, founded over two decades ago and based in the San Francisco Bay area, has earned a worldwide reputation for the highest quality analog and digital recording and mastering. Most recently, she founded Artist Connex, a revolutionary ecosystem for facilitating Artist to Fan engagement with high resolution audio files. Blue Coast and Artist Connex are worldwide leaders in using the Internet to deliver DSD audio to consumers. Cookie Marenco writes for EQ, Keyboard and other magazines, she is a technology beta tester, an in-demand expert panelist at AES, NARM and NARAS, and University lecturer.
Chris Connaker -- moderator
Audiophile Chris Connaker listens to all genres of music on CD, SACD, DVD-Audio, vinyl, high quality downloads and digital files. He has over a decade of experience designing, configuring, and managing global IT networks, and his site, ComputerAudiophile.com, combines his passion for music and his extensive technological background. Chris, who believes that music servers can equal or better the state-of-the-art in any playback medium, reviews computer and audio equipment, writes how-to articles, publishes interviews and hosts events such as the inaugural Computer Audiophile Symposium. He is also an international computer audio consultant to manufacturers, dealers, distributors, record labels, and consumers.
Gus Skinas is president of Super Audio Center LLC, a spin-off of the group formed at Sony Corp of America to support the launch of Super Audio CD (SACD) Format. Super Audio Center develops, manufacturers and markets the Sonoma DSD recording system as a next generation higher quality music recording alternative to traditional digital audio recorders. While working at Sony, Skinas developed new audio production tools based on the native DSD (one bit sigma-delta) audio encoding format of the Super Audio CD. Gus has worked as the director of marketing for EuPhonics and as product manager of Studer Editech for Harman International. He has also worked for WaveFrame and LucasFilm.
Playback Designs founder Andreas Koch got his start in 1982 working for Studer ReVox in Switzerland, building the world's first fully asynchronous digital audio sample rate converter (1984 patent). He then went to Dolby Labs in San Francisco where he built all the digital signal processing of the AC-1 encoder and decoder (a professional digital audio compression scheme used for television transmission). Koch returned to Studer ReVox and managed development of a professional digital audio tape recorder which was a 48-channel DASH format on 1/2 inch tape. Sony recognized his great successes and asked him to relocate to San Francisco in 1997 where he started and managed development for the world's first 8-channel DSD recording / editing / mixing machine (Sonoma).
Andrew Demery was a research scientist at Philips and joined the SACD development team at Philips and Sony.
Leslie Ann Jones has been a recording and mixing engineer for over 30 years. She started at ABC Recording Studios and moved to Automatt Recording Studios before beginning a ten year stint as staff engineer at Capitol Studios (Capitol Records). She is currently director of music recording and scoring with Skywalker Sound and serves on the boards of Institute for Musical Arts, Music in Schools Today, and the recording arts advisory board for the Ex’pression College for Digital Arts. In 2003, Jones was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical, and received a Grammy Award for The Kronos Quartet’s recording of Berg: Lyric Suite, which won Best Chamber Music Album. Jones is a past chair of The Recording Academy’s board of trustees.
Michael Bishop has recorded some of history’s most influential and well-known musicians. A nine time Grammy winner, he has engineered and produced releases that helped define the sound of popular, jazz, blues and classical music. He has also been honored with Japan’s Grand Prix Award, Gramophone Magazine’s Record of the Year, Surround Music Awards, and RIAA Platinum Album awards. As a co-founder of Five/Four Productions (www.Recording.Pro), Bishop now records and produces independent audio projects, maintaining the high production standards he successfully carried in his twenty-year career engineering recordings for Telarc Records.
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