Peace-of-Mind Digital Chain: SACD Transport with I2S Output—What Are My Options?

[sevoflurane]

I’ve bought some DSD online from a record company that basically releases in DSD . I simply let my ROON or Lyrion server transcode to some higher pcm rate and don’t worry about it

But it is a conundrum with dead and dying media, especially with the amount of copy protection going on ? Some disc may never be ripped and preserved by someone with a suitable hacked player .

I have a shelf of unplayable DVDA discs for example. I’ve ripped the 2ch layers ? Maybe I should rip the 5.1 layers for posterity and future use ?

This is the thing. Even though new SACDs are released, optical drive manufacturing appears to be declining. I have a smaller number of DVDAs and have ripped both the stereo and surround layers to FLAC, and have also ripped audio from my Blu Rays. At present I can play them all if I need to on my old Oppo BD103D, but when that dies I won’t be able to get it repaired, and see no point in getting a replacement machine when I have all the music ripped and backed up.

 

[Scytales]

I have a shelf of unplayable DVDA discs for example.

For what reason are they unplayable ?

 

[Mnyb]

For what reason are they unplayable ?

The DVDA player died ( sold as spares with the rest of my Meridian system ) I’ve ripped the 2ch layers to my server years ago. I have to investigate if there still software around and if my current computer drive supports the disc to possibly rip the multichannel layer .

I don’t think current blueray players play DVDA .

A topic for another tread ?

Edit: DVDA predates hdmi versions that supported hires audio I think , due to draconian copy protection schemes the only DVDA players that had unlimited digital out via 3 spdiff ports and a proprietary protocol was Meridian all other DVDA players sported analog 5.1 and a single spdiff crippled to 16/48 .

There was ripping software that bypassed the copy protection, but latest I checked was atleast 15 years ago .

 

[Roland68]

The DVDA player died ( sold as spares with the rest of my Meridian system ) I’ve ripped the 2ch layers to my server years ago. I have to investigate if there still software around and if my current computer drive supports the disc to possibly rip the multichannel layer .

I don’t think current blueray players play DVDA .

A topic for another tread ?

Edit: DVDA predates hdmi versions that supported hires audio I think , due to draconian copy protection schemes the only DVDA players that had unlimited digital out via 3 spdiff ports and a proprietary protocol was Meridian all other DVDA players sported analog 5.1 and a single spdiff crippled to 16/48 .

There was ripping software that bypassed the copy protection, but latest I checked was atleast 15 years ago .

The first one that comes to mind is the DBP-1611UD.

But generally speaking, there were/are several players that also support DVD-Audio from Panasonic, Denon, Pioneer, Onkyo, Marantz, Yamaha, Cambridge Audio, Harman Kardon, etc. Some of them should be available used at a good price.

 

[Mnyb]

The first one that comes to mind is the DBP-1611UD.

But generally speaking, there were/are several players that also support DVD-Audio from Panasonic, Denon, Pioneer, Onkyo, Marantz, Yamaha, Cambridge Audio, Harman Kardon, etc. Some of them should be available used at a good price.

Ill investigate but they rarely came with uncrippled digital out there was boards you could buy with 6 ch spdiff out and modify your player the DBP-1611UD is promising just to get them to play in some fashion in my HT the HDMI does not seem to do any audio ? Edit yes HDMI does audio from DVDA unclear in which resolution if i read the manual , ill continue to investigate , its quite convoluted if actually get 6*24/96 out of the HDMI when using a DVDA

 

[sevoflurane]

The DVDA player died ( sold as spares with the rest of my Meridian system ) I’ve ripped the 2ch layers to my server years ago. I have to investigate if there still software around and if my current computer drive supports the disc to possibly rip the multichannel layer .

I don’t think current blueray players play DVDA .

A topic for another tread ?

Edit: DVDA predates hdmi versions that supported hires audio I think , due to draconian copy protection schemes the only DVDA players that had unlimited digital out via 3 spdiff ports and a proprietary protocol was Meridian all other DVDA players sported analog 5.1 and a single spdiff crippled to 16/48 .

There was ripping software that bypassed the copy protection, but latest I checked was atleast 15 years ago .

DVD Audio Extractor is still around, supported, and able to extract the audio from the AUDIO_TS folders (not a separate layer like SACD, so any computer DVD drive can rip them) folders of a DVDA. It can also extract audio from BDs if they are backed up first using something like MakeMKV to bypass the copy protection.

SACD remains the trickiest to rip as you need an SACD player with a particular Mediatek chipset to rip the SACD layer.