Originally Posted by George Mills
Going to analog is pointless.

I rip my 2 Channel SACD's with the Clux and put them on my Music Server in 24/96 FLAC. But I can't imagine doing that for several hundred SACD's as it's a very tedious/labor intensive process.

To be honest I don't hear all that much difference when I downsample the 24/96 to 24/48 (but that might be different with 861V6 and 8K's). I swear some SACD's are just upsampled and some sound worse than the CD layer. Some players might output 24/48 over SPDIF and you can just hook that direct to 861V6.

Thanks George,

How do you rip the SACD layer? I don't think I have that ability.

I may just gradually replace my favourites with 96/24 downloads when available or rip the CD layer to the Sooloos and forget those that I can't play otherwise. Replacing certain discs will probably be cheaper in the long run.

Wayne

System 1: 861v6+ID40, UHD722, DSP640x2, DSP520C, DSP320x2, DSWx2, Sony XBR-100Z9D, Oppo UDP-203, Kaleidescape, AppleTV 4K
System 2: 808.3 upgraded to 808v6, MC200, HD621, DSP8000.2 with SE Upgrade
System 3: F80
Currently unused: DSP3200x4, DSP33x2, DSP33C, D1500, DSP420x2, G68ADV, G98DH, HD421