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kr4:

--- Quote from: dtc on June 30, 2019, 06:54:11 pm ---Sorry,  did not mean to mininize it. The point was simply that there are far more 5.1 disks/files sold than 5.0 disks/files.
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No problem and probably generally true but not if you consider Classical.

A quick check of my NYC NAS shows that I have, overall, about 51,000 DSF/DFF files.  Of these, about 22,000 are 5 channel and about 15,000 are 6 channel.  The rest are 2, 3 or 4 channels.

However, for Classical only, I have about 35,000 (yes, I prefer Classical).  Of these, about 21,000 are 5 channel and about 11,000 are 6 channel.  The rest are 2,3 or 4 channels.

Note that the vast majority of the 5 channel DSD/DFF files (21K out of 22K) are Classical and there are nearly twice as many of these as there are of 6 channel files!

My point is that 5 channel recordings are common and not an odd-ball exception for Classical collectors.

Matt:
Looking at our code it looks like we already try to expand 5 channel to 5.1 channel during DSD bitstreaming.

We don't have a 6 channel DSD DAC, so are a little stuck.

If anyone has any leads on an affordable unit, please share.

Thanks.

kr4:

--- Quote from: Matt on July 01, 2019, 05:15:18 pm ---Looking at our code it looks like we already try to expand 5 channel to 5.1 channel during DSD bitstreaming.

We don't have a 6 channel DSD DAC, so are a little stuck.

If anyone has any leads on an affordable unit, please share.

Thanks.

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There are none.  The cheapest is the >$3K exaSound e38.  The next is the $13K Merging Tech.

But these would not help you because they are USB DACs and, via their ASIO drivers, they handle the channel remapping just fine.  This issue is founded on using the miniDSP USB-to-AES3 interface and pushing DSD-DoP through it to a trio of stereo DACs.  You should engage Tony Rouget of miniDSP in this if you want to resolve it.

Matt:
Would someone having the issue test this DLL:
http://files.jriver.com/temp/in_dsd.7z

You'll need to install the latest (64-bit) build then extract this plugin on top of the one sitting in your plugins folder.

It tries to expand 5 channel DoP to 6 channel.  Since we can't test, not sure how it will work.

Thanks for the help.

kr4:

--- Quote from: Matt on July 02, 2019, 07:28:22 am ---Would someone having the issue test this DLL:
http://files.jriver.com/temp/in_dsd.7z

You'll need to install the latest (64-bit) build then extract this plugin on top of the one sitting in your plugins folder.

It tries to expand 5 channel DoP to 6 channel.  Since we can't test, not sure how it will work.

Thanks for the help.

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I will try it next weekend.

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