A buddy of mine believes that an SACD player like the Accuphase DP570 converts DSD to PCM. He believes this to be a consequence of them using ESS 9028pro chips. That doesn’t make sense to me. What is the point in SACD if the player converts DSD to PCM anyway? I read on the ESS spec sheet that the 9028pro can play DSD natively at 1024. Or might the ESS chip upsample in PCM and reconstruct the signal back to DSD following the digital filter?
Thank you!
PS to the usual peanut gallery: “SACD is dead”, “DSD is stupid”, “buy this instead”, “you’re wasting money” and similar comments need not apply.
Thank you!
PS to the usual peanut gallery: “SACD is dead”, “DSD is stupid”, “buy this instead”, “you’re wasting money” and similar comments need not apply.