ChupaChups Posted March 26, 2018 Posted March 26, 2018 I got three CDP. A 30 years old Marantz CD-75 (gave this to a fellow SNA member) , a cheapy Lowe CDP and a Pioneer SACD player which I bought 15 years ago. Both the Marantz and Pioneer were connected to my DAC at some stage via coaxial. 1
JSmith Posted March 26, 2018 Posted March 26, 2018 19 minutes ago, Sirmorebeer said: I got three CDP. A 30 years old Marantz CD-75 (gave this to a fellow SNA member) , a cheapy Lowe CDP and a Pioneer SACD player which I bought 15 years ago. Both the Marantz and Pioneer were connected to my DAC at some stage via coaxial. ... and, did one sound better than the other when used as a transport to DAC? JSmith
ChupaChups Posted March 26, 2018 Posted March 26, 2018 40 minutes ago, JSmith said: ... and, did one sound better than the other when used as a transport to DAC? JSmith They both sounded "digital"...LOL. No I can't tell them apart. 1
rantan Posted March 26, 2018 Posted March 26, 2018 (edited) According to instruction from on high, the only answer that is NOT OT......is yes. Dunno wot u dudes is talkin' bout Edited March 26, 2018 by rantan 1
Gremrock Posted March 28, 2018 Posted March 28, 2018 (edited) Use whatever you like, if it doesn't sound good have another beer. Repeat this step as required. On a more serious note, I have used my Oppo BDP93 and the Meridian G98, and would swear theres a great difference in favour of the Meridian, but of course, I didn't measure the difference, so many will argue this. I do use the above steps if I doubt the quality of playback, and rest assured. IT works! Edited March 28, 2018 by Gremrock 1
Volunteer sir sanders zingmore Posted March 28, 2018 Volunteer Posted March 28, 2018 On 26/03/2018 at 5:38 PM, rantan said: According to instruction from on high, the only answer that is NOT OT......is yes. Dunno wot u dudes is talkin' bout I think the answer "no" would also be on topic.
jeromelang Posted March 30, 2018 Posted March 30, 2018 (edited) Do dvd players output cd music signals via their optical/coaxial output terminals at 44.1kHz or 48kHz sampling rate? Edited March 30, 2018 by jeromelang
JSmith Posted April 6, 2018 Posted April 6, 2018 On 3/30/2018 at 2:30 PM, jeromelang said: Do dvd players output cd music signals via their optical output terminals at 44.1kHz or 48kHz sampling rate? ... what did you mean to get at here? S/PDIF is used to transmit digital signals of a number of formats, the most common being the 48 kHz sample rate format (used in DAT) and the 44.1 kHz format, used in CD audio. In order to support both systems, as well as others that might be needed, the format has no defined data rate. Instead, the data is sent using biphase mark code, which has either one or two transitions for every bit, allowing the original word clock to be extracted from the signal itself. S/PDIF is meant to be used for transmitting 20-bit audio data streams plus other related information. To transmit sources with less than 20 bits of sample accuracy, the superfluous bits will be set to zero. S/PDIF can also transport 24-bit samples by way of four extra bits; however, not all equipment supports this, and these extra bits may be ignored. With one exception, S/PDIF protocol is identical to AES3. The channel status bit differs in S/PDIF. There is one channel status bit in each subframe, making 384 bits in each audio block. The meaning of the channel status bits is completely different between AES3 and S/PDIF. For S/PDIF, the 192-bit block for each channel is divided into 12 words of 16 bits each. The first 6 bits of the first word are a control code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/PDIF JSmith
Uncle Seth Posted April 11, 2018 Posted April 11, 2018 (edited) Hope that I'm not dragging things off-topic, but I was recently in receipt of advice that my front-end is letting me down. I have a Yamaha CDX450 which is quite 80's and has no digital outputs and a Bluray player that supports optical or coax output. Can I make either suitable by adding a DAC (of at least 192k / 24 bit); or would I be better to get a transport that has that same spec? Maybe add a DAC upgrade? I am thinking of the Myryad Z20 Dac (or something with analogue inputs), Myryad Z210 CD Player Digital and/or the Topping D50 HIFI Audio DAC (as the eBay listing calls it) with 2X ESS Sabre DACs Les out Edited April 11, 2018 by Uncle Seth
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