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RE: Ripping with dBpoweramp

Posted by PAR on March 21, 2017 at 07:34:19:
The bit depth of an SACD is effectively 1 bit. It is not a PCM format and works differently. However you can't rip SACDs as they are encoded and the information from the SACD disc is not normally available until it has been decoded to analogue i.e. there is no access to it in the digital domain.

However what I say above is not strictly true and there are special methods for ripping them. However this cannot be done by using dbpoweramp.

First you need to have an SACD player which is capable of having the digital stream from the SACD "tapped". This is limited to certain Sony PS2 models from given batches of manufacture, a couple of Pioneer players and some Oppo players. You then need to download software to extract the data and use additional software to convert the result of this to .dsf format which can be understood by some playback software. I think that the current software may include both stages. If you are interested I can give you a link to some detailed information about it. You may also need additional software in order to tag the tracks properly including cover art.

All that you can do with dbpoweramp is to rip the CD layer of the SACD disc (assuming that it is a hybrid). In that case the bit depth is the same as any other CD i.e. 16. Of course you won't get the advantages of the SACD layer.