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    Quad dsd....on the Golden Gate

    NativeDSD files are hosted on Amazon Web Services S3 platform, which has seventeen server sites world wide. There's two in the USA, (three actually, but one is Gov), one in Vaginna, and one in California. All servers have local copies of of all NativeDSD files. There's nothing special required...
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    DSD Battle Royale!

    I'm enroute in Amsterdam returning from Budapest where Channel Classics recorded the Budapest Festival Orchestra playing Mahler Symphony 3, recorded both with the Grimm AD1 at 64fs and the Horus at 256fs. The microphones and their placement used for each setup were very different, for the end...
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    Welcome to the world of mastering :)
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    The track data (PQ markers and metadata) are independent of the .dff/.dsf music data, and are treated and stored in the player as TOC information for the entire album, not as read along side the music. So the player knows from loading the SACD where the various track locations exist.
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    I don't know, but I believe so. Bruce would certainly know. I do know from my Pyramix and Sonoma experience that the PQ markers are common to both the CD and SACD layers. I'm unfamiliar though how and where an SACD player control system obtains its information.
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    Believe me, that's exactly what's happening on post 191. The two pair of stereo tracks are not time aligned on that Pyramix screen shot. Look closely and compare the even number and odd number tracks, they're not identical after the Sonoma fade point. I have no clue what Bruce did in this...
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    Because the fade-in occurred prior to the track start marker on the SACD, so therefore wasn't included in the PS3/SACD_extract track. That was the point of my explanation.
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    I explained the why of that to miguelito in post #207.
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    Ripping SACDs the right way

    Track start and stop timings for SACD rips performed by PS3 and SACD_extract (or similar software), are determined by the PQ markers embedded in the cutting master for SACD production. Those markers are intended to run the SACD player display metadata, and have no actual conection to the music...
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    DSD vs PCM

    But that's exactly the point I'm trying to make; there's no such thing as a PCM/DXD A/D converter, with the exception of the 10+ year old Pacific Microsonics PM1/2 192KHz A/D converter. All professional A/D converters are Sigma-Delta Modulator front ended, yielding a PDM bit stream(s). Any PCM...
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    DSD vs PCM

    Yes, absolutely. And unlike PCM, both are valueless, and therefore need to be converted into a digital value based system/format to be process-able. That's the virtue of DXD, but at a cost of a perceivable spaciousness loss.
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    DSD vs PCM

    Hi Orb, DXD is 24 bit 352KHz PCM. In all instances, it is derived from a Sigma-Delta Modulator operating either 1-bit, or multi-bit Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) as the front end of an A/D converter unit. DXD is currently the best option for highest quality post processing sweetening...
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    Bogus Downloads!

    That's one of the advantages of recording in DSD; +6dB of headroom. It's not like tape saturation, which I don't believe is all that graceful, but is the difference between 50% modulation (established as 0dB in the early development stages of DSD/SACD), and 100% modulation (+6dB). The distortion...
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    Bogus Downloads!

    Hi Bruce, While we really appreciate the mention of nativedsd.com being a Digital Content Provider (a download site business), I'd like to clarify we're just an example of a DCP (Digital Content Provider). and not one of the subject DCP's of this "bogus downloads" thread. We also receive the...
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    Recommend Windows Software to convert SACD ISO and DSF files to (tagged) flac

    JRiver does play ISO DSD files, but I don't know if it will convert them to PCM. You can use sacd_extract.exe to convert from ISO to either dff or dsf, then Audiogate. Google it, and also get Ted's SACD Ripping Guide while you're there.
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