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January 21, 2008
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| No Sony receivers in the U.S. can deal with DSD, the STR-DA5300ES is PCM only, the last one sold here that handled it was the 7100 using iLink. ... more | |
July 29, 2007
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| Has anyone noticed that the new STR-DA5300ES receiver from Sony still has no native DSD support (just like the 5200). No DSD support in the US since the demise of the unlamented 7100. It seems like Sony has truly abandoned the format. I suspect that is why the PS-3 doesn't output DSD natively and probably won't despite the plethora of new receivers ... more | |
June 25, 2007
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| If you want time alignment and all the other crap that severely degrades the sound of an SACD you should just use an iPod instead of SACDs. Bass management would be nice though, that works without making a complete mess of the sound but my experience with any player that does it is that you basically end up with the equivalent of DVD-Audio for ... more | |
June 24, 2007
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| DSD does much better in Europe than here in the States. The existing DSD recording equipment doesn't have all the mixing bells and whistles that PCM has, it does a much better job of capturing natural sound but cannot be mixed the way PCM can be on any computer. No sound effects, no crap, that is why it owns the high fidelity classical and jazz ... more | |
June 24, 2007
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| I think the answer is obvious as to why no DSD, they no longer make a receiver that handles it, it isn't part of Blu-Ray, no one makes DSP equipment for it. PCM won out, inferior or not. Pioneer also no longer makes a receiver that handles DSD (the 84 was the last) and I would guess others will follow. SACD is being relegated to the 2 channel ... more | |
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