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RE: Ripping SACDs worth it?

Posted by ted_b (A) on April 30, 2015 at 09:10:47

In Reply to: 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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