96kHz/24-bit DVD Audio and Sony DVP-S500D

Posted by Scott Kawahara [IP: 204.210.118.181] on October 08, 1999 at 11:55:51
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In Reply to: 96kHz/24-bit DVD Audio and Sony DVP-S500D posted by Nigel Pond [SysOp] on October 08, 1999 at 09:07:40

Thank you very much Nigel. I will try out the Chesky DVD to see how it sounds. My DVD player has the built in decoder and my receiver is just a pass through to the amplifier, no processing. Hope it works.

Aloha,
Scott

: Scott as I recall that model purports to have internal 24/96 digital to analogue converters (DACs), but it will not output 24/96 on a digital output - it is downconverted and truncated to 16/44.1 (I think, but it maybe 20 or 24/48 - at any rate it's not 24/96 at the digital output). So to get the full claimed benefits of 24/96 DVD-video discs you will need to have a receiver with a completely analogue signal path for analogue inputs, because you will need to connect your DVD player to it with the DVD player's L + R analogue outputs.

: If your receiver does any processing of analogue inputs in the digital domain (even volume control), you will lose any benefit of the original 24/96 material as your receiver will convert the analogue input back into digital for processing, then back to analogue - the extra A/D and D/A steps will rob you of any benefit of 24/96. Of course neither your DVD player or receiver will be compatible with DVD-Audio discs or SACDs when they hit the market.

: I have several of the Chesky and Classic Records discs and using my system, which can pass 24/96 digital direct to my processor, the results are very good. You should be aware, however, that the Classic Records discs are not "new" recordings, but remastered at the higher word length and sample rate from original analogue studio masters.

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