Dddac

[norton]

Hi
Might be a silly question
My friend is coming round with some sacd's
He's asked if my Dddac and transport can play them
Haven't got a clue
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Cheers All

 

[Lawrence001]

Hi
Might be a silly question
My friend is coming round with some sacd's
He's asked if my Dddac and transport can play them
Haven't got a clue
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Cheers All

Highly unlikely unless your transport is SACD compatible and has a HDMI out, and the DDDac is DSD capable and has HDMI in.

 

[bigrod]

Does your kit have the following logo

 

[norton]

No logo
Its a Cec TL1X transport,so it's knocking on now But I haven't heard anything better

 

[tuga]

If your CD player can play SACD it will. The digital output will be PCM

 

[Jules_S]

Standard red book CD only, I'm afraid. Your CEC transport is not SACD-capable and, as has been mentioned above, unless equipped with an HDMI output it wouldn't output the DSD datastream anyway.

I think the majority of SACD discs are what is known as "hybrid", which means they have two layers to them. One is a standard layer that can be read by all CD players. So provided your friend's discs are hybrids then your CEC should have no problem with them, but you'll be listening to red book CD.

There are some dual-layer discs where both layers are used exclusively for SACD data, to give an extended play time. I should imagine that's more likely for long classical works (Wagner's ring cycle, anyone?) but I don't think there's as many of those. Certainly the few SACDs I have are all hybrid.

The "technical" section on this Wikipedia page explains the basics

 

[norton]

Thank you All for your help
I am very happy with my pimped up Dddac and transport
Hopefully most or some will be hybrid