Hi,
The DSD file is only converted to PCM when you save as PCM. It's converted to PCM on the fly for click removal, but since only click repairs are saved by this process, that fact is incidental.
Thanks Paul. I am still trying to understand the process.
As I understand it, you cannot save the click corrections in DSD format - correct? The whole file gets has to changed to PCM to change click corrections. If you cannot save a click corrected DSD in DSD format, the fact that the whole file can only be saved as PCM does see to be an important point.
Can you tell me what sample rate PCM the 5.6 MHz DSD is converted to in order to do click removal? I understand your comment about high frequency noise in DSD, but I would still like to try a higher PCM rate. But, if the DSD is converted to 88 or 96 KHz for click removal, then saving at a higher rate is really just up-sampling. The dialog box that I get in fact says that the click corrected DSD will be saved as 176 KHz flac , so I wonder if that is the PCM rate that is used for click removal of a 5.6 MHz DSD file.
The ideal of course would be to have the click corrections does as PCM, with just those small sections changed, and then the changes merged back into the DSD files, since, as you say, they are only very small parts of the file. Any chance that will happen?
As to saving a 172 KHz flac, it is my understanding that the wav conversion settings are suppose to be used in saving a flac file. Is that correct?
Thanks for helping me work through the process.