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| Sharing SACDs tomcarr is right. The GeerFab Audio D.BOB extracts DSD64 from SACDs and outputs to an external DAC that accepts DoP over coax. Legally. | |
| Upsampling PCM or DSD in 2022 I agree with Paul McGowan that DSD is superior to PCM. Part of the reason is that when DSD hits a DAC it doesn't go through filters like PCM does. One of the reasons why a 24/192 recording sounds even better when transferred to DSD to make an SACD... | |
| Blu Ray player versus CD/SACD player. Sorry about that. Forgot where this started. Of course, you have an Oppo 103, which is an ideal player for the D.BOB. I have a 105, which is where my journey started. Wasn't satisfied with the DSD conversion in the box. Growing list of partner DAC... | |
| Blu Ray player versus CD/SACD player. I recommend you take a look at universal players like the Sony UBP 700 and 800, but more importantly, the Reavon UBR X-110. No internal DAC, which are never great anyway, so no analog outs. And then you want an external DAC, and for SACDs and Blu-... | |
| Current Universal Players There's also the Sony UBP-X700 and what might be the Oppo-killer: Reavon UBR-X110 at $999. If you want to listen to DSD off SACDs, and hi-res PCM off other discs through an external DAC, then you need a GeerFab Audio D.BOB www.geerfabaudio.com, av... | |
| Best first track Best first track on debut album: Led Zeppelin I - Good Times Bad Times | |
| CD transport vs.streaming That's right! | |
| CD transport vs.streaming lalitk: By streaming, I was referring to a service like Qobuz or Tidal. There don't seem to be any services that stream DSD. As to downloads, SACDs are often less expensive than downloads and don't take up any hard drive space. I should note th... | |
| CD transport vs.streaming I'm a solo manufacturer, so if I may - try listening to an SACD with this setup: HDMI out of a universal player to the GeerFab Audio D.BOB, which extracts the DSD64 (and PCM up to 24/192) and sends it to an external DAC via the DoP over Coax/Tosli... | |
| Playing CDs sounds better than Qobuz — dammit Try listening to SACDs and Blu-ray Audio discs with a GeerFab Audio D.BOB extracting DSD64 and up to 24/192 PCM, then out over coax/Toslink (DoP for DSD) to an external DAC, and then compare that to streaming. |