by Otello » Tue Dec 06, 2011 9:10 am
As you probably know, recently it has been discovered a trick to ripp the hi-res layer of SACDs (using a Sony PS3 with custom fimware); this way you get a DSD file (.dff extension) that may be converted in Wave/Flac, (using Korg Audiogate or Weiss Saracon), converted on-the-fly in PCM by an input plugin (like Foobar's DSDiff decoder), or passed as-is to a DSD compliant DAC.
So, I think MM developers should at least add the option of sending .DFF files via the digital output to a DAC which is DSD compliant. I'm not a programmer, but I think this task should be quite easy.
The second step, converting on-the-fly in PCM, is much more difficoult, for instance the quality of Foobar's plugin is quite poor, (on my side I get much better results converting off-line in Wave/Flac), but it could be a long term goal.
As you probably know, recently it has been discovered a trick to ripp the hi-res layer of SACDs (using a Sony PS3 with custom fimware); this way you get a DSD file (.dff extension) that may be converted in Wave/Flac, (using Korg Audiogate or Weiss Saracon), converted on-the-fly in PCM by an input plugin (like Foobar's DSDiff decoder), or passed as-is to a DSD compliant DAC.
So, I think MM developers should at least add the option of sending .DFF files via the digital output to a DAC which is DSD compliant. I'm not a programmer, but I think this task should be quite easy.
The second step, converting on-the-fly in PCM, is much more difficoult, for instance the quality of Foobar's plugin is quite poor, (on my side I get much better results converting off-line in Wave/Flac), but it could be a long term goal.