[Vargtass]

I found my Miles Davis - Kind of blue sacd today, got pretty excited and popped it into my denon dvd/sacd-player. Its digitally connected to my Cambridge DacMagic, and analogue from there to my Head-Direct EF1 and my Denon 7000s. What struck me tho, was that I wasn`t able to play it in sacd-mode. I can chose from cd (I assume none-sacd), multi and stereoe. Both multi and stereo doesnt seem to fit very well with the DacMagic. It doesnt emit a light saying what sampling rate its being fed.

Is this normal? Is the sampling-rate higher than what the dacmagic can handle? A bit confused at the moment, was so looking forward to hearing the sacdversion after so long. The normal one is sweet, but with loads of background noise / statics.

 

[iriverdude]

I thought SACD only worked from analogue outputs to do with copy protection over SPDIF.

Also is your DAC multi-channel, or just stereo (that's if even SACD is passed though digital, I assume HDMI will have enough bandwidth but unsure even if passed over that either)

 

[Vargtass]

Good questions there. Could it be SACD can only be transfered through analogue or hdmi? Hohum.

I think the DacMagic is stereo. It`s a downer if I cant listen to sacds through it, but it`s not really the end of the world, truth be told. Just a bit surprising.

 

[jpelg]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vargtass /img/forum/go_quote.gif Could it be SACD can only be transfered through analogue or hdmi?

Bingo. No surprise there.

 

[Vargtass]

Officially owned.

Cheers for the thinktanking, guys. Case closed.

 

[Bones13]

To put SACD music into your digital collection, it would have to be sent via analog from the SACD source, and re-recorded, then encoded via FLAC/MP3. All the goodness is lost however.

 

[jilgiljongiljing]

Yep, Bones13 is right, well sort of. You can have a 24/96 interface and record hi res wav/flac. But you are still hearing the output of the DAC of the SACD player that played the SACD and not the SACD itself. (If that makes any sense)

 

[Uncle Erik]

If you can switch your SACD player over to read the Red Book layer of your SACD, then it should send digital output to your DAC. You won't get it to send the Scarlet Book layer to your DAC - that's verboten on every SACD player.

 

[fdhfdy]

haah, the same question had been asked for many times.

WHy there is nothing for sacd digtal outs,

 

[BigTony]

Inrestingly if you play a SACD on the PS3, the optical out works fine to an offboard dac.

 

[thathertz]

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigTony /img/forum/go_quote.gif Inrestingly if you play a SACD on the PS3, the optical out works fine to an offboard dac.

Really??? Must be a PCM signal then.

Anyone confirm this?

 

[jpelg]

[size=xx-small]Re: PS3[/size]

I'm guessing this is outputting the Redbook layer of a hybrid disc.

 

[grawk]

I'd be pretty surprised if the company insisting the drm not get broken on sacd would be the one to circumvent it

 

[jilgiljongiljing]

PS3 can only send the true SACD signal as multichannel PCM over HDMI. Via optical its just the regular cd.

 

[grawk]

I don't believe current ps3s can play sacd, either.