NEW Discovery: Getting the Oppo DSD Output to a Dac.


Getting the Oppo DSD Output to a Dac.

I’m no longer using a Preamp. So it’s been a long time since I have been able to play my SACD’s.  I really didn’t want to pay for new digital downloads after paying so much for the many SACD’s that I currently own.

I saw an adapter listed on EBay from China that caught my attention. It costs $18 bucks including shipping! It looks to be well made and fairly small. It comes with a wall wart AC adapter. But, I found that it is not needed. It seems the little adapter gets its power from the HDMI via the Oppo. At one end of the adapter is the HDMI input. The other end outputs Optical or Coaxial and both are assessable at the same time.

Now with this little adapter I have been able to take the extra HDMI output from my Oppo 95 and convert that output digitally to my PS Audio Direct Stream Dac.  And, it is outputting the DSD stream! The PS Direct Stream Dac shows 24/88.2 Hz as the input. Now, I can now play my SACD’s again and they sound fantastic!

So, I have been copying my SACD’s into my hardrive. To do this, I first copy the 24/88.2Hz signal using my Tascam DA 3000 onto a SD card. Just for the heck I’m also recording that Oppo output at 24/192 HZ. Then I simply transfer that recording to my Hardrive.

Here is the link.


128x128ozzy

Showing 4 responses by kijanki

What do you mean by "High Resolution rate"?    Resolution of SACD is 1-bit. Rate is 2.8MHz.  You cannot possibly record that to hard disk.  Normally only data is stored to HD without timing.  Rate is recreated with playback device or program.
Because it was converted from 1-bit 2.8MHz to 24-bit 88.2kHz  PCM. It is "high resolution rate" of PCM obtained by converting SACD and not the rate of SACD itself (1-bit 2.8MHz).   Also, amount of information is higher than 16/44.1 but sound will be, most likely, very different from the sound of SACD player.
The point was that sound most likely will be different since SACD D/A converter and PCM D/A converter are very different (SACD is simplier).  I'm glad you like PCM version more than the original SACD.
Yes, but this analog output was obtained by using very simple internal D/A converter (practically a filter) that is completely different than converter in your DAC when you feed it PCM.  Sound should be different, that's all.