[alamakazam]

1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
 
Yes
 
2. Do you own any SACDs? 
 
a few, Sound of Music OST, Diana Krall
 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
 
1% SACD against CD
 
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC? 
 
yes, especially for multi-channel function
 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
 
$300-500

 

[ericlaw02]

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1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
Yes.
2. Do you own any SACDs?
No. 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
90% files (mostly lossless), 10% CDs
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC?
No. 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
$150-$200 (in USD)

Thanks.

 

[dhan]

1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?

SACD only

2. Do you own any SACDs?

No

3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?

100% CD or files

4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC?

No

5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?

$0

Thanks,

Dan

 

[Ds79]

1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
Scary but I remember the release of it

2. Do you own any SACDs? 
Yes

3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
2% sacd 98% cd and flies slowly re ripping the collection to flac.

4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC? 
No

5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
As long as it looked great and worked well $200

 

[StevenTam]

1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
Ans: Sure~

2. Do you own any SACDs?
Ans: Yes~

3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
Ans: 10 vs 90

4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC?
Ans: No, sound quality is everything!

5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
Ans: Depends...
 
 

Steven

 

[haejuk]

1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
Yes.
 
2. Do you own any SACDs? 
No.
 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
0% SACD, 100% digital files.
 
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC? 
No.
 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
If I became interested, I would be willing to pay around $200 for well implemented upgrade.  I assume something similar to the USB that is already available for Bifrost, but for SACD/DSD.
 
Thanks.

 

[flatmap]

1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
YES
2. Do you own any SACDs?
NO
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files
N/A
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC? 
NO
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
$200 -- Since I have no SACDs or SACD player, this would be simply to explore the option. 
I doubt I would really dive in... unless it was truly, staggeringly good.  Then I'd go whole hog.

 

[B-Dawk20]

1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
 
Yes I am, DSD less so.
 
2. Do you own any SACDs?
 
No I do not.
 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
 
N/A
 
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC?
 
Not at the moment but possibly in the future when I have a better set up.
 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
 
Probably no more than $50.

 

[uelover]

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1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
Yes
 
2. Do you own any SACDs? 
Yes
 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
1%
 
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC? 
No
 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
Yes I will pay up till USD400

 

[Christopherthal]

 

 
1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
 
Yes, though I've never seen or heard any DSD recordings. 
 
2. Do you own any SACDs?
 
Nope. 
 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
 
Nada.
 
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC?
 
Nope. 
 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
 
If I needed the upgrade for some reason, I'd maybe pay up to $100. But I don't. 

 

[theeditor]

Yes I am.

Yes , I do

CDs by an extreme majority

Yes, it is.

It depends if SACDs are comparatively priced.

 

[scompton]

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Hey all,
 
It's that time of year again--time we pick your brains. The topic of SACD and its associated DSD datastream have come up in questions about our DAC products, and we want to know what you think about it.
 
So, in order:
 
1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
2. Do you own any SACDs? 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC? 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
 
That's it. Please let us know what you think by May 15, 2012 in this thread to enter for your chance to win a Schiit Bifrost with USB. We'll announce the winner, chosen by random drawing, within a few days afterwards.
 
Thanks to all in advance for participating! 
 
All the best,
 
Jason Stoddard
Co-Founder

1. Yes
2. Yes either because of multi channel mixes or because that's the only way the music was released.
3. <1% 20-30 SACDs, 4000 CDs
4. No, I just bought a nice Oppo universal player
5. Not interested at this time.

 

[bigalila]

1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
Yes
 
2. Do you own any SACDs? 
No
 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
0%
 
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC? 
Not at the moment, but I just got into the hobby.  Maybe in the future as I dive more into the hobby.
 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
At the moment, I would not be interested, as I own no SACDs or player.

 

[Grado77]

1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
 
YES
 
2. Do you own any SACDs?
 
YES, I own approximately 30 SACD's
 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
 
5%................I own about 600 albums collected over 25 years
 
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC?
 
NO ....... For headphone listening, I usually listen to the SACD disc's stereo layer with a high end source plugged into my Schiit Asgard. The source DAC is very good and pumps the L/R to the Asgard with stunning results. For multichannel SACD listening, the source sends the DSD signal via HDMI to my AVR for decoding.  Speaker listening is the only way to truly appreciate multichannel SACD. Down-mixing is a waste IMO.
 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?
 
NO...................I can't see a situation where I would need that capabilty. The answer to Q#4 is pretty much what I am content with nowadays. DSD is a pretty limited format. For me, I don't rip SACD's so the only option is to play discs on a capable source, and the sources I use have exceptional DAC's so I just send the decoded stream out the L/R analogs with great results.

 

[O8h7w]

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1. Are you familiar with SACD? DSD?
2. Do you own any SACDs? 
3. If so, what percentage of your collection is SACD vs CD or files?
4. Is SACD/DSD decoding an important consideration when you're looking for a DAC? 
5. If you owned a DAC that could be upgraded to playing SACD/DSD, what would you pay for the upgrade?

 
 
1. Yes, I suppose, but not at the same level as most other formats.
2. One. Could grow, but at this rate I wouldn't want it to.
3. < 1%. Mostly I play ripped CDs. ~5%, that is 7 albums, purchased as high-res files directly. Those are ALL of my recent purchases.
4. No, but it sure would be nice to have for that odd disc.
5. Right now, nothing. This summer, less than $100. Next summer, probably more.