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In Reply to: RE: Ripping SACDs worth it? posted by Mr_Steady on April 29, 2015 at 14:30:38
A few points I'd like to make:
1) DSD64 has the potential for 150db from 20hz to below the 20khz, as long as the DAC effectively filters the noise shaped data above 50khz or so (DSD128 and DSD256 doubles and quadruples that distance between music and noise in the ether).
2) No existing PS3 will rip SACDs, only out of production CECHA, CECHB, CECHC and CECHE units. Furthermore, those units cannot have had their firmware updated beyond 3.55 or an adtl $100 needs to be spent to hardware mod them down again.
3) SACD rips come from what is called the DSD cutting master. It is normally a losslessly compressed (DST) dff file that then goes through SACD authoring; it came from the original dff file (called the edit master). In theory if you can get the edit master before this SACD authoring then you have a slightly cleaner dff file and a better sounding download. So...it all depends on the label. Most labels provide us (NativeDSD) the edit masters but I can't speak for other sites....our Channel Classics, for example, are all edit masters.
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Thanks for the great info Ted.
I have read up on the PS3 process. Your comments about the mastering process helps a lot. I will have to try a better quality download source.
If SACD rips sound as good as the 2.8Mhz files I am listening to now, then I would be very happy.
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Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
I have ripped close to 200 SACDs via the PS3 method. Unfortunately, like everything else in this hobby, some were outstanding and some were so-so. Even within the same label, I have almost all of the RCA Living Stereo SACD catalog and as I mentioned, some are excellent and some not so much.
I also discovered that some of the newer SHM stuff was a little disappointing - and they aren't cheap!
If you have the SACDs and are adventurous I would recommend trying it. Just the keepers alone, not having to purchase them as DSD downloads at $20+ each, has more than paid for the PS3.
Thanks Jabs. I hear ya.
I've read that the SHM stuff is hit or miss. Too bad.
No I don't have any SACDs. I keep repeating to myself that the Yes box set would make it all worthwhile, but then I read user reviews that say it's very dynamically compressed. I guess we in the US don't have a monopoly on that. I might do it anyway.
I think I will give the Yes albums remixed by Steven Wilson on DVD a try. Of course I'll be downloading the Neil Young albums off PONO in 24/192, and I know those albums like the back of my hand. I should get started tonight.
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Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
It'll be good to great.. That dude was born 40 years too late, he woulda killed back in the late 60s/early 70s...
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I may never find out. I just noticed that on these reissues he is mixing the 5.1 not the 96/24 two channel. Those are just straight transfers from the original tapes. I guess that's good and bad. I don't know what kind of results one could get by down mixing the 5.1 into 2.
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Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
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