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I can understand the value of recording something on any high quality format-agnostic recorder and then converting to a distribution format. So if the MR-1000 happens to be a very nice recorder, I can understand why you'd want to record with it and convert to other formats.
However, if you had a high quality recorder in your distribution or editing format of choice, I don't understand the advantage of recording in another format, even if it's a better format. If you plan to convert to PCM, then you discard the DSD advantage and have only added an extra step.
To be extreme about it, say you wanted to make an mp3. If you had a great mp3 recorder, would that not be the best option? If you first recorded to a DSD deck, and then transfered to mp3, you discard the DSD advantage and have added an extra step that at best, does nothing, and at worst, adds distortion.
In other words, say you were working with format X. Isn't the best approach to record on the best format X recorder you could get? If you recorded first on a format Y recorder and then transfered to format X, all you've done is introduce extra steps into the process that at best do nothing and at worst introduce distortion. You discard the advantages of Format Y over Format X when you convert.
Adding Format Y, because Format Y is a superior format, seems to go against the "straight wire" logic of recording if you are not going to edit or distribute in Format Y.
I understand the rational for recording and mixing at higher resolutions because of all the math involved, but I don't understand the value of recording in an exotic format if you are not going to edit in it, and are going to change it to something else anyway.
Am I missing something obvious?
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