Quote: Originally Posted by furball DTS/Dolby Digital signals are encrypted. The encryption is there for copyright protection. Because of the encryption, the DTS/Dolby Digital decoder is both a decoder and a multichannel DAC, you cannot separate out the two. The multichannel digital to...

Quote: Originally Posted by eweitzman In the case of the Oppo, they must be using one of the DAC chips that accepts DSD data, converts it to PCM, and then converts the PCM to analog. These DAC chips are the basis of the cheap universal players. I think these chips also function as...