PSA: Super Audi CD works with the B&O
03-14-2008, 03:54 PM
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Re: PSA: Super Audi CD works with the B&O
Hell yeah! Are you serious? I thought SACDs didn't work! That made no sense with a surround system, so I'm psyched if this isn't just a freak thing.
03-14-2008, 04:46 PM
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The Dark Side of the Moon SACD is a hybrid..
It encodes both "stereo" and "5.1 Surround" on 2 distinct layers. If surround doesnt play (not compatibile with the CD player), it defaults to playing the "stereo" mode. The B&O DSP can then up-convert that into 7.1 surround (it has to convert 5.1 channels to 7.1 channels anyways --but a high quality DSP probably wont make it sound very different to most ears than the encoded 5.1 surround on the SACD layer).
Maybe that happened?
Sexy music though -- cant wait to listen to all my Floyd on the B&O.
If only I could blink and 3 months went by....
Maybe that happened?
Sexy music though -- cant wait to listen to all my Floyd on the B&O.
If only I could blink and 3 months went by....
03-15-2008, 10:05 AM
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i have yet to hear the SACD layer
'great gig' is my "turn it up to 11" cut off that album.. is 'money' in quadraphonic-equivalent space with the 5.1?
dsotm has been my benchmark cd for years now - it's a shame modern music has stepped all over the cd's dynamic range..
gahh you're killing me, only 4 more months for me! well, anywhere between 4 and 40, i think..
dsotm has been my benchmark cd for years now - it's a shame modern music has stepped all over the cd's dynamic range..
gahh you're killing me, only 4 more months for me! well, anywhere between 4 and 40, i think..
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03-16-2008, 09:13 PM
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any iPOD format is going to be stereo-only.. AAC, FLAC, OGG, MP3, WAV, etc are all 2-channel
so far all of the audio file formats supported by personal audio devices are limited to 2-channel audio. There are extensions to WAV (RF64/BWF) that address multichannel support, but so far usage of that file format seems limited to broadcast applications.