In contrast with DSD-Wide or DSD Pure which offers level, EQ, and crossfade edits at the DSD sample rate (64fs,[clarification needed] 2.822 MHz),[3][4] DXD is a PCM signal with 24-bit resolution (8 bits more than the 16 bits used for Red Book CD) sampled at 352.8 kHz – eight times 44.1 kHz, the sampling frequency of Red Book CD.
DXD was initially developed for the Merging Pyramix workstation and introduced together with their Sphynx 2,[5] AD/DA converter in 2004.
This combination meant that it was possible to record and edit directly in DXD, and that the sample only converts to DSD once before publishing to SACD.
This offers a great advantage to the user as the noise created by converting DSD rises dramatically above 20 kHz, and more noise is added each time a signal is converted back to DSD during editing.
Today, DXD is also used as a music distribution format in some HD web stores.