Post by cato91 May 21, 2007 (1 of 5)
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I'm new to SACD, and I normally listen to classical CD's on my iPod. Before I buy some of the new LSO Live recordings on SACD (their sound quality on CD is already magnificent), I would like to ask if the SACD quality is lost in the transfer from CD to hard disk.
Thanks.
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Post by zeus May 21, 2007 (2 of 5)
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cato91 said:
I'm new to SACD, and I normally listen to classical CD's on my iPod. Before I buy some of the new LSO Live recordings on SACD (their sound quality on CD is already magnificent), I would like to ask if the SACD quality is lost in the transfer from CD to hard disk.
You'll need a SA-CD player to hear the high-resolution signal on SA-CDs. Since the LSO Live discs are hybrids however, you can transfer the CD compatible layer to hard disk or your iPod as before but there would be no benefit over the CDs.
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Post by tommwi May 21, 2007 (3 of 5)
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cato91 said:
I'm new to SACD, and I normally listen to classical CD's on my iPod. Before I buy some of the new LSO Live recordings on SACD (their sound quality on CD is already magnificent), I would like to ask if the SACD quality is lost in the transfer from CD to hard disk.
Thanks.
Well-you can’t get the SACD onto a hard drive. So there is no relevance to your question.
SACD uses the DSD digital format while CD/DVD-V/DVD-A and computers uses PCM formats. They are completely different. The only digital format you can rip to a hard drive is the CD layer of a SACD hybrid or of course standard CD’s. Even if you could rip the DSD layers you would not be able to play it because your computer simply doesn’t play the DSD format.
If you find the LSO live CD to be magnificent, you will need to address the most superlative words the English language have to offer, to describe the quality from say a Channel Classics SACD. Try their Mahler 2… I’m afraid I find LSO live recordings mediocre soundwise!
/Tommy
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zeus said:
You'll need a SA-CD player to hear the high-resolution signal on SA-CDs. Since the LSO Live discs are hybrids however, you can transfer the CD compatible layer to hard disk or your iPod as before but there would be no benefit over the CDs.
Actually if you were to purchase a Sonoma system you probably could record SACDs to that hard drive. It includes analog to DSD and DSD to analog chipsets. Not for everyman however.$$$$$$$$$
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Incidentally Sony released a new PC this week (VAIO Type R series) with a so-called DSD Direct Player function but the above points remain valid: it is not possible to read the high-density layer on a PC, let alone copy that data to the Hard Disk Drive. The only thing this PC can do is upconvert CD-quality audio to DSD but obviously it makes no difference then whether you use plain CDs or SACDs.
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20070517/sony.htm
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