I use the word "classical" in quotes because it seems like shops call anything from Gregorian chant to Philip Glass and not rock/jazz/electronica "classical." I've just about had it with shops like NativeDSD and ProStudioMasters: they charge outrageous prices to download crazy gigantic files...

I recently got a BDP-S590 at my local junk shop and downgraded its firmware to allow it to play my SACDs backed up on DVD+R. (Sony--in a fit of anti-consumer behavior that is becoming all too common-- removed this functionality in the early teens so that inserting a copied DVD+R SACD gives the...

I have a lot of DSD64 files ripped from years of collecting classical SACDs. They sound fantastic using ifi Zen on my Linux PC. However, listening to DSD on portable devices is pretty marginal: Hidizs AP80 "Pro" has intermittent weird noises and Hiby R3 Pro sounds better but not nearly as good...