A new approach

[folderol]

As part of our quest for the best possible sound we are planning an enhancement that passes bits through a grading process (the well known 'Enharmonic Bit Comparator' - version 33)* thus ensuring that any bit asymmetry is removed. In laymans terms, this has a heater to agitate the bits, then an amplifier to highlight the errors, and rectifiers to remove them. Symmetrical bits produce significantly less quantum noise so reduce the possibility of alignment boundary collisions, giving a much warmer, smoother presentation.

Such advanced technology has a cost of course, so to gain the greatest benefit from this process it is necessary for Yoshimi to now use only audiophile grade bits, rather than the standard ones and zeros present in ordinary programs. Bit quality is heavily dependent on the source so we recently did a line-by-line review of the code, feeding it to our Delta Orthogonal Grader.

Finally, there is the open-source BitShine engine (BS). This 'clarifies' individual zeroes and ones passing through it, making them sharper, so should give greater precision when passed on to the DA converter. This is available under the 'Multi User Grant' license. As it appears to be GPL compatible we are looking at it for possible inclusion.

I should point out that there is only a narrow window for discussion as we expect to be committed by lunch time today.



* EBC33 - Mullard

[bvdp]

Sorry, Dude, but since it is March 31 here for another 6 hours I'll be unable to contribute to this discussion. But, even so, I've heard that this process is better when it is sent to tape first. Doesn't matter at which point tape is used, so long as it is the chain the magic sound of tape will enhance it.

[offthewall]

Nice one ...
very technically explicit on this auspicious day 

[elwoodblues91]

Being an audiophile myself,I find this process thrilling(despite that it's way over my head!)

[MarioD]

A word of  caution, don't set the heater slider to high as those over agitated bits can come back and byte you