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    Pinot ADC from Playback Designs in Feb 2016

    FYI, Sony will be offering their new turntable/ADC with PC- and Mac-compatible DSD recording software: http://www.whathifi.com/sony/ps-hx500/review Let's hope that Playback Designs will follow suit with the launch of the Pinot DSD ADC...
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    Nagra Introduces Classic DAC at CES 2016

    I was hoping that they would release a new mobile DSD recorder rather than another DSD DAC, but a greater choice of DSD DACs is always a good thing I guess. At present all their recorders can only do PCM... http://www.nagraaudio.com/recorders/
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    Merlot DAC and Syrah Music Server

    T+A in Germany has also recently released a new DAC with 22.6MHz DSD support :) https://www.stereo.de/news/newsdetail/t-a-dac-wird-dsd-tauglich/
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    Pinot ADC from Playback Designs in Feb 2016

    I wonder what "performance reasons" cause them to recommend using DSD64 over 128 rate... weird.
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    Pinot ADC from Playback Designs in Feb 2016

    Hmm.. Tascam has a free DSD editor with native DSD 256 support... http://tascam.com/product/hi-res_editor/overview/ but their DA-3000 recorder, which can be used with outboard DSD ADCs, maxes out at DSD 128 alas. So it seems that Pyramix is the only game in town for DSD 256 captures at this...
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    Pinot ADC from Playback Designs in Feb 2016

    The above link says that the Pinot can be used as a professional DSD recording system, so maybe it will come with the necessary recording software? But in any event, the Pyramix is a pretty popular software DAW with DSD 256 capability, so what's not to like?
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    Pinot ADC from Playback Designs in Feb 2016

    Or to the Grimm AD1... It's good to finally see a new discrete ADC with double and quad DSD support!
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    Manufacturers forced to stop SACD players production

    In the meantime, Esoteric announced two new SACDs today... http://www.esoteric.jp/indexe.html One would have to wonder why they continue to churn out all these SACDs if their all SACD/CD transports are all gone.
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    dCS Paganini DAC upgrade with master clock or Puccini U-Clock?

    In the e-mail from dCS you quoted in post #33, Martin Rainolds said they would have used the VSOP drive for Rossini "if they could rely on the supply." I understand that he's talking about one particular Esoteric drive there. The question is, did they ask Esoteric about the drives that are...
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    dCS Paganini DAC upgrade with master clock or Puccini U-Clock?

    In its newer SACD/CD players Esoteric is using new versions of VRDS Neo drives. I gather from your post that dCS specifically wanted to use a VOSP drive in their Rossini range (which they couldn't get), but still have the higher VMK drives.
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    dCS Paganini DAC upgrade with master clock or Puccini U-Clock?

    Well, VOSP isn't the only SACD/CD transport out there, and we already established that it even isn't the best one. BTW, do you know if the information about TI retiring the PCM1704 DAC is true? https://www.facebook.com/FikusLampi/posts/1617673151797950 It will be interesting to see if TI...
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    Manufacturers forced to stop SACD players production

    The differences between a regular SACD drive and the T+A transport mechanism go beyond the aluminum case. I wonder how it compares to Esoteric's VOSP drives (they don't look very massive themselves, do they?) ...
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    Manufacturers forced to stop SACD players production

    It's a quite fancy solution though, I don't think I've seen anything like it on any other SACD/CD player... "The PDP 3000 HV’s high-grade SACD mechanism is fully shielded and housed in a machined solid aluminum case in order to prevent any trace of interaction between the moving parts of the...
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    dCS Paganini DAC upgrade with master clock or Puccini U-Clock?

    They all continue to produce SACD players, and we can add the latest T+A machine to the list.
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    dCS Paganini DAC upgrade with master clock or Puccini U-Clock?

    But they weren't their top drives, right? I'm reading in TAS that Esoteric designed the VOSP drives for "lower-priced products" http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/esoteric-p-03-universal-disc-transport-and-d-03-digital-to-analog-converter/ From what I see all their current top SACD/CD...
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    Manufacturers forced to stop SACD players production

    It looked like a fatal miscommunication to me from the beginning. BTW, I'm curious if T+A are using an off-the-shelf OEM transport in their new SACD/CD player PDP-3000HV, or is it their own design...
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    Manufacturers forced to stop SACD players production

    Yep. Two "industry members"... apparently not from Sony... ostensibly claim that Sony stopped manufacturing SACD decoding chips. It sounds fishy to me.
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    Manufacturers forced to stop SACD players production

    I suspect some fatal miscommunication there...
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    Manufacturers forced to stop SACD players production

    +1 Sounds like a made up story to me. Marantz has just announced a new SACD player at the High End Munich Show. It's set for September release: http://andreweverard.com/2015/05/14/marantz-celebrates-30-years-of-special-editions-with-new-sa-14se-and-pm-14se/
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    Mytek Manhattan

    I'm curious how Mytek's upcoming 11.2MHz DSD ADC will stack up against the rest of DSD recorders...
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    Yes. And I agree that hi-res files should be cheaper, especially the PCM ones. But with new proprietary formats like MQA their prices may only go up, due to extra licensing fees typically associated with them.
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    Wisnon, I'm curious why Neil Young decided to end Pono's collaboration with Meridian, was he opposed to introducing yet another closed format on the market, or did Meridian's licensing fees prove a deal-breaker...
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    Somehow I don't see cleaning of 24/192 masters as a big selling point to the average consumer. I smell a catch there, with the "audibly" part. :)
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    Lossless compression is nothing new. And apodizing filters are available in computer software. No need to re-buy everything in Meridian's new proprietary format.
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    If that is so, then it's a straw man argument, as no hi-res supporter is focused on the format to the exclusion of other aspects of recording process and audio playback.
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    Yes, sounds like another proprietary format from Meridian. Didn't Neil Young contemplate using it for his Pono service at one point? Apparently, he concluded that the last thing consumers need right now is yet another proprietary format their audio players don't support.
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    I'm skeptical about this yet another proprietary audio format....
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    True. And if you record in 16bit/44.1kHz there's no truncation at all. But it's not an argument for using such recorders/ADCs ;)
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    While it's of course true that good mastering of an original recording can make the recording to sound better, re-mastering will only get you so far. There many things that can't be corrected after the recording was made, during re/mastering.
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    On the contrary, it's a very good analogy. Because recording engineers have much more power than mastering engineers, who have to work with the original recording, and no mastering process will make a stellar product out of the recording sabotaged by incompetent recording engineers. Ask a...

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