SACD Ripping using an Oppo or Pioneer? Yes, it's true!

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Biggest bummer with forums is the info is scattered. Is there a site with info organized on this topic? List of units that work, links to the files needed to make this work. Current step by step instructions. There are 82 pages here with some over a year old. Technology marches on and things have likely changed.

 

I'm very interested in getting my SACD collection onto my NAS and available to JRiver Media Center for listening without digging for a disc. At the moment considering purchasing a Pioneer Elite BDP-80FD. My assumption is that each unit requires a unique setup. I found SACD-extract-BDP160.zip but assume it only works with a Pioneer BDP-160. Do I assume correctly?

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On 5/10/2017 at 0:56 AM, Scar972 said:

 

So the file name that indicates this is for the Pioneer BDP-160 (SACD-extract-BDP160.zip) works with the BDP-80FD?

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1 minute ago, Scar972 said:

No, the SACD-extract-BDP160.zip is what you would use for the Pioneer Elite BDP-80FD so go ahead and buy it. I ripped 20 sacd's last week and the process was incredibly easy. I have not had a single problem with this player reading any of my SACDs.

Does the zip file have instructions included?

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20 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

BTW, will the new Oppo UDP-205 rip an SACD?  It has the newest ESS DAC chips, but I'm unclear on what chips have to match what to do a rip...

 

If not, what is the cheapest player (and easiest to use) that will rip SACDs?

Don't know if this is the cheapest but the Pioneer BDP-80FD runs at $230 on Amazon. I've ripped a dozen or so SACDs without any issues.

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10 hours ago, awesome said:

Interesting topic, just found this this evening! I've got an Oppo player so will try this tomorrow. 

So once I've got an ISO file from the SACD; how do I get to FLAC?

I know DSD is better, but I need room correction, so I need to go the FLAC route.

The easiest way to convert the SACD ISO to FLAC if using Windows is with Foobar2000 after installing the Super Audio CD Decoder (foo_input_sacd). The SACD decoder settings are not well explained so here are the settings I use:

Output Mode: PCM

PCM Volume: +0 dB (first pass)

PCM Samplerate: 88200

DSD2PCM Mode: Multistage (64fp)

Preferable Area: None, Stereo, Multichannel (I set to none and then select the files to convert separately)

Editable Tags: checked

Store Tags with ISO: checked

Linked 2CH/MCH Tags: checked

Edited Master Playback: checked

DSD Processor: None

 

After the first conversion to FLAC I analyze the audio files in JRiver to discover the Peak level. SACD's peak levels are typically 3 to 6 dB below the 0 dB clipping level. If the peak for any track in the album is say -4.2 dB I rip again with Foobar with the PCM Volume set to +4 dB.

 

Note that the SACD decoder is not listed on the Foobar web site but it can be found at SourceForge

 

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On 7/21/2016 at 10:49 AM, YashN said:

 

At least we now have several models from different manufacturers to hunt for.

I have a PS3 and a Pioneer BDP-80FD ISO rip of Nickel Creek "This Side" and they are bit for bit identical. If then ripped to DSF (DSD) files they should be identical.

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7 minutes ago, David Fell said:

As of a moment ago; I have tried 3 USB thumb drives. One was 64GB and USB 3.0, the others were 16GB and 32GB, USB 2. So far no luck. All drives have been formatted FAT32 from the factory. I would try reformatting them, but FAT32 is grayed out in Apple's Disk Utility. All drives were from Sandisk, will try to scrounge something else up tomorrow.

 

 

I've never had an issue but then have never used a flash drive larger than 8GB which is the max file size for a FAT partition.