Consumer devices can't be allowed to output unencrypted DSD over i.e. coax . . . this would be a violation of the liscensing agreement that the manufacturers need to support the SACD standard. It is, of course, a copy-protection thing. The Trivista DAC wouldn't be affected here, because it actually doesn't play the discs, but who knows how they expected it to be used? Maybe with modified machines, in the same way that the SDI interconnection standard was popular a while ago between DVD players and video processors -- but the only way to get an SDI output on a DVD player was to modify it.
The dcs equipment does use IEE1394 (firewire) to convey DSD from their transport to their DACs . . . and several IC manufacturers offer ready-packaged DSD-over-1394 transmit/receive chipsets that are targeted at consumer electronics applications. But adoption of this standard in finished products seems to be extremely rare.
The dcs equipment does use IEE1394 (firewire) to convey DSD from their transport to their DACs . . . and several IC manufacturers offer ready-packaged DSD-over-1394 transmit/receive chipsets that are targeted at consumer electronics applications. But adoption of this standard in finished products seems to be extremely rare.