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Re: Apples and oranges...

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Ah, therein lies the question. What is the difference between reading the data and what the dac does ? What, in a standard player limits it to lower resolutions while other newer players can "read" higher resolutions ? These questions, because all I'm hearing is that it's only the disc and the dac which determine resolution and sampling rate. There must be another element here in the transport/reading mechanism or circuitry that enable it to read 24/96 or whatever. If I put a 24/96 disk into my 18 bit player and send the data to a 24/96 capable off-board dac, why the hell am I not getting the resolution that is on the disk ? And why do modern dvd player with 24/96 dacs downsample to 48kHz to the digital output ? Apparently, there are only a couple of players that send a true 24/96 datastream to the digital output ? Why, why, why ?

Just want to understand this whole mess.


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