I do understand that some material re-released in DSD has been "remixed" or "remastered", whatever that may or may not mean. I included the word possible because it is very questionable whether you could actually hear any difference between 96/24 and 44/16 lossless files from the same source in a properly conducted A/B/X test. If you want to get any possible benefit from the DSD files, you would convert them to 96/24 lossless (PCM/FLAC or whatever) or better files. This does raise the question, if you spent more for the DSD sources, why did you spend the extra money if you are converting them to CD quality files? For all practical purposes you are ending up listening to a file that is the same as the material on the CD. So if playing CDs doesn't damage your tweeters, then playing the converted files won't. In practice, as the low pass filter already in your digital to analog converter has some "slope", the upper reproduced frequency slopes off, provably starting about 20 kHz. Assuming that your digital to analog converter is working properly (and it works the same for these converted files as it does for a ripped CD) there is nothing of significance above 22.05 kHz that will be reproduced, per the above mentioned Nyquist/Shannon theorem. 44 (presumably actually 44.1) thousand samples per second, 16 bits of resolution. A 44-16 file is the same as what is on a CD.
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