I think this is fair given that Saracon produced excellent results last time as an encoder plus it is an "industry standard" used in many professional studios. To maintain an "apples to apples" comparison as best I can, I will use the Saracon 01.61-27 encoded DSD file of a 24/96 test signal with each of these decoders.
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Plus we now have DSD decoding on the Mac OS X available with XLD and commercially with DSD Master. We have brand new versions of JRiver and AudioGate now, plus I didn't get to test foobar with the DSDIFF plugin last year.
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Well, another year has passed in terms of software upgrades to DSD decoding and I was interested to compare the decoding capabilities as of late. The differences in decoding capability appeared to be very minor (questionable audibility between the 3) but objectively, both Saracon and JRiver 19 were on par and the free AudioGate 2 somewhat "noisier" in terms of the PCM output (I speculated this was due to stronger dithering algorithm). Perhaps not surprisingly, the expensive Weiss Saracon software sets the standard as the most consistent DSD encoder that resulted in the best output once decoded. The idea was to determine which of the three created DSD files from an original 24/96 PCM test signal and then decoded it back to 24/96 in a way where there was as little change in terms of distortion, flat frequency response, and lowest amount of added noise. About this time last year, I posted the first comparison of DSD Encoders and Decoders "shoot-out" of sorts comparing Weiss Saracon 01.61-27, KORG AudioGate 2.3.3 and JRiver 19.0.117 in terms of quality - both encoding and decoding fidelity using the RightMark Audio Analyzer software. It is amazing how quickly another year has passed. Yup! DSD can better reproduce a 0.000003 second "click". Impulse Response: One of the talking points from back in the day as a selling point for DSD.
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