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You can't....except...

Posted by theaudiohiffle (A) on April 6, 2007 at 19:19:59

In Reply to: "Native DSD"? How can you tell? posted by BobH on April 6, 2007 at 15:36:27:

...it traditionally costs a bit more to do it that way, so manufacturers that do often say things like "completely separate path for SACD decoding" or something to that effect. However some of the more recent DAC chips have been designed specifically to make this easy, so it may show up on more and more machines in the future.

The only way to be sure used to be to buy a Sony....they always used direct DSD decoding. But I'm not sure about their latest, cheapest DVD-based machines. Certainly if you buy an ES machine from Sony, you get a direct mode.

Be aware, however, that to get the benefits of this on most machines you cannot use any kind of bass configuration or crossover...all five speakers must be used in direct or bypass mode. I think some of the latest chips do allow bass management in DSD, but I don't know specifically which machines do this.
Harry

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