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just so!

Posted by Bruce from DC on December 29, 2018 at 11:44:33:
With my Sony XA-777ES player, the difference between SACD and RBCD is almost always obvious (that is, when the machine decides to play SACDs, which is infrequently).

But the thing is at least 15 years old. No doubt RBCD reproduction is much better, but I just have to take the plunge and get a decent DAC that doesn't cost a fortune.

I have a very small number of SACD-only discs; the rest are hybrids. There must be a way of ripping the SACD-only discs to a DSD file and then converting it to PCM. On the used (and some new) market, there are lots of reputable DACs that don't do DSD.