Originally Posted by sfogg
Actually that doesn't matter at all on the 980 or 983, their DACs were PCM only. As such they were always fed PCM no matter if you were passing DSD over HDMI or not.

Shawn

Argh, yes of course Shawn is correct. I had forgotten why everyone was waiting to see how the BFP-83 would behave with DSD: whether it would allow conversion to PCM prior to hitting the DAC, or not (as was the case with the 981, if I'm not mistaken).