I know that and have ripped many SACDs. I own a few low-end iFi DACs and a few DAPs that claim to play DSD natively. What is interesting to me about S590 is that it is also a convenient way to actually PLAY both legit. and ripped SACDs. Most dedicated SACD players cost crazy prices and this old...

Looking at the picture from Encompass, I see a big chip in the middle of the board with Sony CXD90008G-AA on it. Can't find a datasheet indicating what this thing is exactly. The Toshiba chip (TC-blah,blah-NV-blah,blah) is probably some nand flash.

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...

Long-time head-fi lurker and very skeptical of HD Music. My name's Mike and I can't hear ultrasound.

I would not buy from these sellers. They have negative feedback and a relatively small number of sales <500. If some is already getting negative comments with so few sales, they probably are not very responsible.

Err, eBay is not an option for you? Try searching for the most common models: NW-A45, NW-A55 You should find ones from Japan around $120-150 Search for NW-A35 on eBay. Lowest is $75 shipped from Japan. Other hits show about $85.

I'm a big fan of the Sony NW-40, NW-A50 series Walkmans running the Mr. Walkman CFW. About $100 or less, expandable uSD storage, plays FLAC up to the (insane) quality of 352.8KHz / 24bit. I find Sony's effects to be usually inoffensive to almost good, particularly when listing to mp3s. In...

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...