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In Reply to: RE: All we need is more SACD titles. posted by Hiro on January 02, 2009 at 13:09:17
They will always look for the "next big thing" that will bring home the bacon.
SACD - been there done that. As the KEKEL's last LOL died now the SACD whimper will fade as something new comes to take over the mantle of HiRez. DSD or not, Hi Rez will find a way.
My gut tells me, that whatever it is, has a chance of sticking. Technology and storage has increased tremendously since the old outdated days of SACD/DVD-A.
Let go of the past and embrace the future!
You can do it Hiro, yes you can!
Follow Ups:
Anyway until such a day as DSD becomes downloadable SACD is the best we currently have. And with the Sony's rumored relaunch of the Green disc SACD, perhaps it will finally be THE digital format for the masses as well!
SACD lives!
Happy listening,
Teresa
> Anyway until such a day as DSD becomes downloadable. . .
Now there's a thought.
However, until "such a day", it seems that the folks who insist
on having all their music on a server (of which I seem to have
become one) have taken to **re-digitizing** their SACDs
(into high-rez PCM, of course), with a decent A/D converter,
in order to be able to get the stuff onto the PC.
And there we have another way in which Sony, wearing its
hat as Sony Music [guardian of the Columbia Records catalog]
has shot itself in the foot with respect to SACDs.
SACD (and DSD) are completely proprietary -- you can't
rip 'em, you can't send the signal to an external DAC,
you can't process 'em with your favorite DSP software,
etc., etc. Even DVD-As have turned out to be rippable
(though I wouldn't dare tell you how! ;-> ), and DVD-A
authoring software has gotten into the hands of the
masses. Not so with SACD.
If you just want to rip SACDs to DSD and play them back from files stored in a computer or server, it is possible to do this today. It requires expensive pro equipment or a certain amount of D.I.Y. expertise. If you want to do DSP processing on DSD files, this won't be possible without first converting them to PCM. This is a technical limitation of DSD, not a restriction imposed by Sony based on its technology licensing strategy.
It's not clear that hi-res PCM is a step backwards from DSD. It's more like a small step backwards from DSD to 96/24 PCM and a step more-or-less sideways to 192/24. At some higher rate, PCM could well be a step upwards.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
I said Hi Rez via Blu Ray whether PCM or DSD.
Edits: 01/03/09
Sorry, but that does not exist, even on drawing boards, as far as I know, unless you mean conversion of DSD masters to the lossless PCM formats Blu-ray does support. I do not think the industry is up for another format war. None of today's Blu-ray players or processors, can support DSD from a Blu-ray disc. Only a few are announced that will play SACD/DSD discs, but not DSD from a Blu-ray disc. It would be senseless to even contemplate such a development.
"Anyway until such a day as DSD becomes downloadable SACD is the best we currently have".
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
Currently I can only play 24 Bit 96kHz and the site offers 24 Bit 192kHz as well as DSD what software do I need to play those.Thanks in advance,
Happy listening,
Teresa
Edits: 01/03/09
"Currently I can only play 24 Bit 96kHz and the site offers 24 Bit 192kHz as well as DSD what software do I need to play those."
Your knowledge of using a PC for playback is better than mine Teresa - I tried using EAC to copy a CD for a friend last week, but once I'd ripped the audio I couldn't find it to burn to the CD-R.
Ended up doing the job with a free trial of NERO. :0(
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
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