In Reply to: RE: DSD Numbers. posted by PAR on February 22, 2017 at 05:36:49:
The XA5400ES will output DSD (mch or stereo) via HDMI but it will also output PCM (mch or stereo) from the DSD layer of the disc depending on the handshaking with the connected target component.
I became familiar with this when I tested the XA5400ES and was surprised to find that it output mch PCM when I connected it to 2-3 preamp/processors which were supposed to be capable of handling DSD as can Disbeliever's Sony AVR. It turns out that the player demands a particular handshake code and, with a trivial firmware update to those pre/pros, they immediately elicited DSD output from the player.
It is unfortunate that Disbeliever has been listening to PCM rather than DSD but he was getting real multichannel and high resolution (24/192, most likely).
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Follow Ups
- Sorry. - Kal Rubinson 06:05:31 02/22/17 (2)
- RE: Sorry. - PAR 07:02:13 02/22/17 (1)
- RE: Sorry. - Kal Rubinson 07:08:33 02/22/17 (0)