botrytis Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 SACD was originally designed as a way to backup masters by Sony/Philips. This was told to me in a discussion with people from DCS who helped design it. Solstice380 1 Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
botrytis Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 6 minutes ago, R1200CL said: I assume very few SACD players is produced today. There can’t be much royalties to collect these days. If the same DRM etc is used in PlayStation, maybe it’s an issue ? I was thinking maybe someone was able to get in touch with the right people as Sony, to see if the format could be “set free”. Is their plan to keep it forever? Is it for sale ? I know of one product that is legally able to extract SACD out to SPDIF. Cost $1000. It is not that, it is the chips (in the laser drives) to help decode the data stream are no longer made by Sony. As such, there is a limited amount of drives that can be made. Also there are few manufacturers of those drives, Esoteric is one. SPDIF only allows 96/24 max for output so not sure about how good the copy would be. Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
botrytis Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 You still need both sides to be compliant with that 192/24 of the SPDIF or it will be just 96/24 - just saying. The chip is used for the protection of the SACD format. Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
botrytis Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 4 minutes ago, R1200CL said: Aha. Well hopefully they can just reprogram it 😀 And I think AES/EBU is up to 8 channels also. Well according to DCS, that is why they stopped making SACD players (if I remember the discussion we had at an audio event they were at). Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
botrytis Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 So, i.Link components have to have DTCP (Digital Transmission Copy Protection) otherwise both DVD and SACD cannot be played. hmmm..... 🙀 Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
botrytis Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Sony stopped producing the chips 3-5 years ago, I was told. Sony has enough chips for themselves but will not sell them to other drive producers Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
Popular Post botrytis Posted January 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2021 Again, blame the masters not the medium. If you want to blame anything, go there. it is not DSD 's fault. DSD is a great format but it is only as good as what is transcribed to it. R1200CL, kumakuma and sandyk 1 1 1 Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
Popular Post botrytis Posted January 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2021 DSD files. My DAC can actually play DSD files w/o DOP. I think you need to divorce the master from the format. Your choice. I have both good and bad sound DSD files. It is more based on the master than anything else. I think you just want to blame the format. You sound like the beginning of the CD era, when masters were from vinyl and converted to digital and sounded like crap. cab33, sandyk and R1200CL 1 1 1 Current: Daphile on an AMD A10-9500 with 16 GB RAM DAC - TEAC UD-501 DAC Pre-amp - Rotel RC-1590 Amplification - Benchmark AHB2 amplifier Speakers - Revel M126Be with 2 REL 7/ti subwoofers Cables - Tara Labs RSC Reference and Blue Jean Cable Balanced Interconnects Link to comment
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