psimeon

The Pioneer DV-747 was modified with a board, which converts the DSD-Signal to PCM and outputs that on three separate SP-DIF outputs (Left/Right, Center/Sub, Left Surround/Right Surround). The converted signal is 88 kHz/24 Bit and can be feed into a digital sound capture card. I use a Juli@ PCI-Soundcard from ESI on an old G4 Mac (should also work on Intel Mac PROs). These boards were mainly developed by a Swiss speaker company (which produced the Campana digital speakers) to connect DVD-Audio players digitally to their speakers and sold through a Swiss company DVD-Upgrades. In case anyone is interested, there might still be some boards around for older Pioneer players, though they are no longer listed on their web site (which is now http://www.highdefinition.ch). I could check with the engineers. Peter

Ok, I understand. Anyway, once we have to possibility to downgrade, we can always up and downgrade whenever we need to. That's good enough for now. Looking forward to a downgrade solution.

Hi Ted, I'm new to this group, though I have read quite a few posts in the past. This is great news, indeed. Will this also allow to make a new version of the SACD ripper which could run on the 4.25 Firmware? It would be great to have a reasonably recent firmware and the SACD ripper at the same time. I currently have Firmware 3.70 and was looking for a downgrade. Until now I have ripped the SACDs (Stereo only) via SP-DIF on a modified Pioneer DV-747, but would like to get access to the DSD Files directly.