fbourgoin asks:
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The very good reason for DSD is copyright protection. Does anybody knows someone who has ripped into MP4 some DSD datastreams?
You can't directly rip the datastream. You'd have to sample an analog input, or get a player modified by DVD Upgrades and use that output at 24/88.2K to rip the data.

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I personally like SACD, it sounds analogue, and I would have the quator of dCS gear if I could afford it.
I think the hype dramatically exceeds the sound quality for SA-CD.

When you couple that with the complete inability to perform native signal processing (everything involves multi-bit intermediates) its appeal due to the "purity" of DSD becomes more and more limited.

Anyway, that's just my opinion on the topic. I own a player that was modified by DVD Upgrades because I like surround music, and this was the best sounding path to me for SA-CD.

Cheers,

Surround Music Fan/Computer Geek/Curmudgeon in training.
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