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macdonjh:
I have several of the RCA Living Stereo multi-channel SACD reissues.  I'd love to rip the multi-channel content to my Mac.  Can that be done?  I don't care if the ripped file is multi-channel DSD or multi-channel PCM.  Can I use my universal player instead of my CD-ROM as a transport with an HDMI cable?

blgentry:
Sadly, SACD discs require a special drive to read them.  Those drives, as far as I know, are only in SACD players.  *and* the Sony PS3.  But only a certain generation of the PS3 has the SACD capable drives.  They sell for more than a regular PS3 because of the SACD ripping capability.  To do it with a PS3 requires some special software and stuff.  I've only read up on it a little.

Last I checked there was a guy on one of the forums (maybe computer audiophile?) who is building a custom board to try to make an external drive, using PS3 drives, that you can connect to a computer to rip SACDs directly.

It's kind of a silly situation, but that's how it stands today, as far as I know.

Brian.

Awesome Donkey:
If I remember right, ripping SACD discs requires a Playstation 3 using an older firmware.

JimH:
Early PS3's only is my understanding.  There's more on our wiki.

macdonjh:
Thanks, guys.  I did do my search of the WIKI and the forum, so I've seen the older threads about the PS3.  I was hoping that either things had changed since those threads were written, or that I was in luck because I didn't care about preserving the DSD signal.  What would MC21 do with a signal from the HDMI output of a universal player reading the multi-channel layer of a hybrid SACD?  All I want is the multi-channel information.

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