First multi-channel DSD playback solution with Mytek!

[tailspn]

Ted, have you looked into .dsf as a multi-channel format? It's specified as stereo only, and I have not tried to convert a 5 channel .dff file with Audiogate to see what it does with it. It's on a machine currently taken apart.

[tailspn]

Thanks guys! I was reading the DSD Disk spec, which as I understand it, was the genesis for .dsf, and that's 2 channel only. Then AudioGate should be able to do the 5 channel conversion from .dff to .dsf.

 

Thanks again!

[tailspn]

I'm not sure Audiogate can convert more than 2 channel files. i could be wrong; never needed to.

 

If you have it handy, could you try it for me?

 

Thanks

[tailspn]

It's not a big issue. Pyramix 8 with DSD support is due out for release mid April, and it does support .dsf now, in addition to .dff. I just have a few projects I'd like to complete before 8's release.

[tailspn]

Thanks Ted, I'll be waiting for Pyramix 8 then. I appreciate your resolving this issue for me

 

Tom

[tailspn]

My point is that the existing DSP might not have the needed processing power to decompress that DST in real-time. As for uncompressed DSD, can you send those over USB?

 

Are you serious, or just trolling? Don't you understand how any of this stuff works?

[tailspn]

Well, please excuse my childish outburst. His continuous denigrating of anything connected with DSD occasionally frustrates me. Your's and Jussi's responses are much more even handed.

 

To the DST issue; as Ted explained it is the format for authoring DSD for a SACD production. It may include lossless compression (usually does), and is part of the right's protection. DST has no bearing on a DSD edit master file from which it was made. Also, the DSD edit master is the source for non SACD ripped DSD downloads. DST is decoded to DSD in any SACD compatible player's transport support board, including a PS3. There is an available program however, originally written by Philips, that decodes DST to DSD, but not in realtime. It's used professionally to check SACD authored masters prior to sending them to a stamping plant.

 

The data rate for six channels of serialized DSD data is 16.92Mb/s or 2.115MB/s. USB2 is rated for an effective rate of up to 280Mb/s, or 35MB/s. Sixteen times greater than necessary for 64fs DSD, and eight times greater for 128fs DSD