TASCAM DSD Conversion Software
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T Bone

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Have you ever had a reason to export a track to DSD format?   There's easy ways to decode DSD file formats, but I wasn't familiar with one for ENCODING to DSD.  
 
I stumbled on a free software package from TEAC called "TASCAM Hi-Res Editor".  
I did a quick search here on Head-Fi and didn't find a thread dealing with this topic, so I thought I'd share.  
 
This package will let you export a file to one of three formats:
  1. DFF
  2. DSF
  3. WAV
 
It also the following frequencies:
  1. DSD64 - 2.28MHz "SACD"
  2. DSD128 - 5.56MHz "Double Rate"
  3. DSD256 - 11.2MHz "Quad Rate"
 
You can try it out for yourself [HERE]
 

 
Naturally you're not going convert your cd collection to DSD format with this package.
 
In my case I was going to test a reported firmware defect in a DAC that allegedly causes the left/right channels to be inverted during DSD playback.  I wanted to convert a simple L/R channel test track to DSD for testing purposes.  
 
I'm sure someone else out there might have a reason to burn a .dff or .dsf file for one reason or another.  
 
Enjoy!
 

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