seanadams;215635 Wrote: > Speaking DSD to the DAC is the whole point of it. Now, that alone does > not rule out the possibility that there is some player out there which > converts DSD to PCM for some reason, but it seems largely to defeat the > purpose of using DSD in the first place (which is already questionable). SACD players with DSD->PCM architecture are definitely out there. In the audiophile community, there are many that share your thoughts regarding whether this defeats the purpose of DSD. However, as I remember, there is a European company that makes an S/PDIF transmitter board which taps into a SACD player that already does DSD->PCM conversion. What these guys are saying about this new board is that it has a custom DSD->PCM converter on-board that is better than any of the standard DSD->PCM chips. THAT is why they feel it is worth the high price they are asking.
It would be interesting to be able to extract the audio from a SACD in some hi-res form that the Transporter could understand. If somehow one could get the raw DSD data onto the hard drive, how would one use it? But converting to 24/96 would likely retain most of the sonic benefits of DSD and could be decoded by a variety of existing devices, including the Transporter. -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36917 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
