SACD through Analog Interconnects

Both formats are analog output only in their current guise.

As two channel, this is not enherently bad as a high quality two channel analog preamp is not too tough to come by. Multi-channel is a bit stickier.

Inherently, there is actually some advantage to having the D/A converison in the player. Unless you have a scheme where the DAC's and the transport are in sync, you have an opportunity to have jitter creap onto the signal (check out http://www.tagmclarenaudio.com/dev/white/wp11.asp for an explanation).


When you get into multiple sources with multi-channel (DVD, DVD-Audio, SACD, HDTV) clearly it becomes crazy to have 6 or 8 analog outputs from each source. So a digital interface is highly desirable.

When?

Sometime after we decide on our new president...

Perhaps, just maybe, before the next election.


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Buzz Goddard
www.tagmclarenaudio.com

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Correct, there is not much advantage of a two boz system (transport and D/A conversion) from an electronic standpoint. It's when you get into multiple sources and you'd like the system to be usable, freindly and mildly consistent between the different formats that it gets hairy.

Deja Vu. There used to be a dozen different plaback equalizations for records (those black petrochemical based things with wiggles that we extracted sound from by dragging a hard little appendage through the wiggles) and your preamp had to be set up for each one correctly.


On the last question, no, the DVD-Audio players have 6 analog outputs. DVD-Audio was always conceived of as a >2 channel medium.


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Buzz Goddard
www.tagmclarenaudio.com

Buzz,


Thanks for the help. In going back to the rear photo of the Pioneer DV-AX10...your right it does have six analog outputs for DVD-Audio...which I assume will be also used for future multi-channel SACD.


So buying this unit with six channel analog output for DVD-Audio and SACD...also means an upgrade in the pre-amp?


Thanks for your patience...so I can get this right.


Michael

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Quite so. And their website hasn't even caught up to that application yet.

I guess the number of available DVD-Audio discs hasn't collapsed their incoming freight dock yet!

Seriously, it would get very interesting to start comparing the DVD-Audio setups with a high end DTS music disc setup. Given that pretty much all the DVD players and companion 6 channel preamp/processors are from more mid-fi companies, and that the DTS discs can sound quite good, I wonder if the quality of the medium can overcome the lower quality in the playback chain.

Oh no, more DTS comparisons!

OK, forget I said it!



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Buzz Goddard
www.tagmclarenaudio.com

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I guess you could say that. I don't know what you have for a preamp now, but for alot of audiophiles, given what is offered in the way of 6 channel devices today, I'm afradi I can't call it an upgrade http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif



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Buzz Goddard
www.tagmclarenaudio.com

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With duct tape.

You can't get five channels of audio into it.




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www.tagmclarenaudio.com