I think you may be able to play SACD through your amp by changing the settings on your blu ray player to output BITSTREAM via the HDMI cable.
@ElJuanSolo
Жыл бұрын
If I’m correct and I can’t say that I totally am…your player is decoding the SACD and sending it through your system as LPCM/PCM. For example I have a PS5 that plays 4K movies,it decodes whatever the sound is (DTS,TruHD,Dolby etc…) and sends it out through my receiver via LPCM. If my receiver could decode it,I’d set the PS5 to bitstream and let the signal be decoded via my receiver. The format you’re getting is PCM,but the channel is 3/2/.01 and your sampling is 176.4kHz so it is playing as an SACD quality disc. It’s easier to test if you don’t use a hybrid SACD where it would only be able to play in that format. Again,this is how I believe it works.
@erhman2004
2 жыл бұрын
My first SACD player was a Pioneer. I can't remember model number. The only way to get SACD audio was to run all analog out from the player to the inputs on your A/V receiver/processor. At the time I had a Yamaha DSP-A1. So, it had 5.1 inputs as well as a 2 channel in for CD. Long story short, it was a little cumbersome for all those connections. Now I have an Oppo player that connects to my newer Yamaha receiver that has DSD decoding capability via the HDMI connection. Much more convent. So, the SACD experience is a lot better now than back when the SACD was decoded in the player and send to your system on multiple analog connections to your system. I have several SACD titles, and more are on the way later this month.
@fpgaruda9966
4 ай бұрын
I probably listen more critically than most but for me, on my system, I prefer using the rca connection over hdmi.
@ChrisStoneinator
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely invest in the MoFi SACD of Brothers in Arms if anything; the 20th anniversary edition stereo layer is a notable step down from the original black tray CD, and that "Dire Straits Remastered" edition. Even the HDCD layer of the same disc gives better results because the peak extension gave them an excuse to undo some of the compression.
@motownrockerusa
Жыл бұрын
Just an FYI for you brother, SACDs are made from the master tapes. No second or third generation. That is why you get the Superior Sound. That was also one of the reasons a lot of other titles are not available on SACD. It came down to licensing rights. SACDs are encrypted. And Sony owns the rights to the encryption. They were worried about bootlegging. I just started collecting SACDs. When I play one for my friends, their mouths just drop. LOL it is the best sounding format period IMHO.
@sergiobisonte
Жыл бұрын
yes... they sound better cause they are mixed and recorded better.. it has nothing to do with the format itself.. or bits or megas or kilos...
@motownrockerusa
Жыл бұрын
@@sergiobisonte like I said, recorded from the original Master tapes. No second or third generation.
@marcfavell
10 ай бұрын
You can just get a file and get the same even better now with it as high as as 32-bit/384kHz and DSD 1024 now on digital files and Multi chanel I've downloaded a lot of high-resolution music
@fpgaruda9966
4 ай бұрын
@@motownrockerusaI’m curious if you’re still collecting? If so, how many SA-CD’s have you collected since your post here a year ago? I know how hard it can be to find them at used music shops and new or online prices can be a bit much. Early in my collecting years I’d buy any SA-CD I found if it was priced right. These days I only buy if it’s something I actually want to listen to.
@luca6819
3 жыл бұрын
I would question how much of that "better" is due to the more data in the format and how much depends on the different processing before making the recording from the master. A lot of CD were really messed up, especially some remastering of old albums and that is one of the reason why a lot of people would say that the vinyls were better, not a better medium just a bad audio processing on the other side, or maybe targeted to sound better on the more widespread crappier audio system.
@marcfavell
10 ай бұрын
Yes that's true a bad recording is a bad recording at the same time I think you're really depends on what kind of music you listen to personally some of the best recordings I've ever heard have been high bit rate digital files especially the older stuff like Pink Floyd and The Rock and roll even some classical sublime and some other new music like Jacob Banks all those sound good and hi bitrate files what is what replaced SACD like DSD files and MQA ect
@marcfavell
10 ай бұрын
Anyone that says vinyl sounds better doesn't know what bad ears and don't get what good sound should sound 💁♂️
@dirtysoles
Жыл бұрын
SACD Should have replaced CD Redbook for superior sound the hybrid tried to help us through the process… all being equal with source material…
@georgeshaffer4686
3 ай бұрын
Try HDMI TO TOSLINK HDMI out to converter then Toslink/RCA to receiver. sounds great and plays DSD
@jasbo7288
3 ай бұрын
Great video just looked my Marantz pm7000n amp accepts 176.4 khz pcm via coaxial so the Sony x700 converts Dsd to pcm on its coax output so dire straights on SACD connected this way should sound better than normal cd?..thx..
@madcrabber1113
7 ай бұрын
Price was the problem as well as the marketing wasn't there. To get an avr that can decode sacd you need to make sure it can do dsd via hdmi.
@aspjake123
Жыл бұрын
Going to see if my Onkyo 502 SACD player works with my Cinema 40. Thank you for this video!
@GeirRssaak
5 ай бұрын
No,as a Norwegian sound engineer I must say that it is not Worth it! People should trust their hearing! I have been working with advanced analoge and digital gear for 30years!
@petermitchell6348
2 жыл бұрын
In theory the SACD should sound better than the CD by 50%. CD is 16 bits ie 2 bytes. SACD is 24 bits, or 3bytes.
@JnL_SSBM
Жыл бұрын
PCM: 24bit up to 192kHz DSD: 1bit up to 64Mhz or 64DST
@ChrisStoneinator
Жыл бұрын
SACD doesn't have 24 bit samples, it uses DSD. Also, "in theory" 24 bits is 2^6=64 times better than 16 bits. But of course the returns are diminishing, after all the sampling noise floor can only approach 0, and it's already most of the way there on a CD. The advantage of SACD is the resolution in the time domain, and the lack of band limiting/aliasing noise.
@charlesludwig9173
2 жыл бұрын
My Sony outputs DSD my Marantz NR1200 says direct PCM?
@dannytse8767
2 жыл бұрын
Because the Marantz can not decode the DSD bitstream from your Sony.
@ZERO-CAPACITANCE
7 ай бұрын
There is no question that DSD is superior to standard postcode modulation.
@Echo-jg8is
2 жыл бұрын
CDs cost on average second hand about 10p to 20p... Cost of SACD about £20 to £60 pounds and up... Every song is still recorded at 44.1 and 16 to 20 Bits and CDs are the closest you can get to the original master...
@ChrisStoneinator
Жыл бұрын
Most stuff recorded in digital is 24/96 these days. And for stuff recorded in analogue, SACD is a no-brainer. There have been substantial advantages in taking digital transfers of analogue recordings, and the DSD format essentially introduces no aliasing, and no noise in the audible frequency range at all, whereas CD does (I'm not a Shannon-Nyquist denier, but even disregarding aliasing issues, high-frequency information is lost when it moves out of phase with the sampling, and the longer it stays out of phase, the more difficult it is for the DAC to essentially reconstruct). I will pick a nice, warm, natural original 80s/early 90s CD when the alternative is a compressed modern CD remaster, but an SACD remaster is almost universally better, save for a select few cases where there's either a really unnatural EQ or compression applied, like the Dire Straits album in this video. There's just no comparison in terms of detail.
@ChrisTaylor-dz6nk
2 ай бұрын
Buy in Japan.7 us dollars and up to 15 us dollars for dsd xd blue Ray.
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