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Title: SACD playback
Post by: bigmun01 on December 19, 2011, 05:23:43 pm

Sorry to ask, but I'm unable to find an answer to my question.
How does one playback sacd via mc? If special equipment is required, what is it?
Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: SACD playback
Post by: JimH on December 19, 2011, 05:57:21 pm

I don't think anything can play a SACD on a PC.  It's a copy protection issue. 

There are ways to rip a SACD if you have an older PS3, but it's complicated.  Check computeraudiophile.com's forum.

MC can play the files:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/DSD_Format

Title: Re: SACD playback
Post by: nwboater on December 19, 2011, 07:28:04 pm

Quote from: JimH on December 19, 2011, 05:57:21 pm

I don't think anything can play a SACD on a PC.  It's a copy protection issue. 

There are ways to rip a SACD if you have an older PS3, but it's complicated.  Check computeraudiophile.com's forum.

MC can play the files:
http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/DSD_Format

Also check at Audio Circle Hi Res Forum - this thread - http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=95396.0 (http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=95396.0) for more PS3 SACD information.

Rod

Title: Re: SACD playback
Post by: mrboonmee on April 18, 2012, 10:53:41 am

I have tried every settings I can think of and only get 2.0 stereo 44.1khz out of my Multi Channel SACDs.  Using an ATI 5550 video card. My receiver does not do DSD over HDMI. I tried the DoP settings under Video also.

Possible to get all channels of my SACDs?   

Title: Re: SACD playback
Post by: JimH on April 18, 2012, 11:00:40 am

I don't think you can do that on a PC.  MC won't play SACD's.  It will play DSD, which is the same file format, if you have the files (not on the SACD).  See the DSD topic on our wiki.

Title: Re: SACD playback
Post by: Sandy B Ridge on April 18, 2012, 12:09:03 pm

Quote from: mrboonmee on April 18, 2012, 10:53:41 am

I have tried every settings I can think of and only get 2.0 stereo 44.1khz out of my Multi Channel SACDs.  Using an ATI 5550 video card. My receiver does not do DSD over HDMI. I tried the DoP settings under Video also.

Possible to get all channels of my SACDs?   

Quote from: JimH on April 18, 2012, 11:00:40 am

I don't think you can do that on a PC.  MC won't play SACD's.  It will play DSD, which is the same file format, if you have the files (not on the SACD).  See the DSD topic on our wiki.

Jim is indeed correct. There aren't any PC drives that can physically read the SACD layer on the disc. The standard CD content is on a different layer. There was one Sony laptop drive a few years ago that supported SACD I think, but that was long ago.
An old PS3 drive with lots of hacking is probably the only reasonable solution to extract the data from the disc.

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