In Reply to: RE: Fully committed Computer Audio-phile with lots of sacd's posted by theob on April 24, 2012 at 06:21:16:
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DSD-to-PCM conversion can be done a few ways. The main 2 are:
1) use a good src and convert to something like 24/176k or whatver your DAC is capable of. My guide walks you through doing this in Audiogate, a free Korg utility.
2) on-the-fly via many of the Windows and Mac-based players. Each player has a setup rotuine that allows for realtime DSD-to-PCM conversion, with sample rate choices, etc.
Option 1 creates duplicate PCM files; option 2 leaves your DSD files as is.
As alluded to above, I helped pioneer the idea of using an HDMi de-embedder back 2 yrs ago, which is to grab 24 bit PCM off the SACD-to-processor HDMI stream and feed it to a very inexpensive HDMi de-embedder like Monoprice, Atlona, etc...but this option is less sonically preferable. HDMI is wrought with jitter, a few SACD players downrez to only 16 bit, and several more do only 24/88 DSD-to-PCM anyway (mediatek chip max).....and recording the output is a PITA, since it is realtime and requires some real work, track splicing,etc. :)
There was a time when folks like Shawn Fogg would produce a dedicated DSD-to-PCM board that several SACD players could handle via simple mods, resulting in 3-4 SPDIF 24 bit SACD output..but those are no longer readily available. Mytek and a few others have modded a Sony player or two with SDIF outputs (as alluded to above) but these modded options still requires spinning discs of course.
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- RE: Fully committed Computer Audio-phile with lots of sacd's - ted_b 07:09:42 04/24/12 (3)
- RE: Fully committed Computer Audio-phile with lots of sacd's - theob 07:17:00 04/24/12 (2)
- RE: Fully committed Computer Audio-phile with lots of sacd's - ted_b 07:28:01 04/24/12 (1)
- RE: Fully committed Computer Audio-phile with lots of sacd's - theob 07:41:11 04/24/12 (0)