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I'm not sure if you have read my (above quoted) post, so ..., wouldn't the Octo not exactly suit your needs?

You could order the Octo Research DAC8 Pro with higher Outputlevel, if needed:

What a great review! Almost unbelievable how much work must have been gone into this article. Time for a re-listen session :-)

One can not rip DSD 128 (or 256 and beyond) files from SACDs, because the samplingrate used for SACD production is "only" DSD64.

Just stumbled in here - and .... wow! Absolute great work and reading. Thanks so much! I also prefer the SACD version - maybe a bit bass-shy, but this may depend on taste. I also like the remix, especially the surround version.

Thanks for the info. So maybe i should go back and retry the same over here. Would be cool to get this issue fixed.

The exact same album has given me _a lot_ of headaches back in the time I tried extracting the tracks into *.dsdiff or *.dsf files. No matter which version of sacd_extract I tried, and no matter what other features I enabled or disabled (i.e. "edit master"). So I gave up on extracting my isos and started playing back the isos instead. As I am using Foobar2000 as player, and tagging works quite good, I kept it this way (and as I am listening quite a lot to multichannel content as well ...). The only drawback with playing DST packed isos is the heavier cpu load while unpacking the content has to be perfromed every single playback.

I think that the way it is mixed/recorded is intentional. Try to listen to it - especially the " The Ninth Wave " section from "And Dream of Sheep" onwards - with headphones. It has ... a special feel about it. Thanks to josh for his insights - always a good reminder to pull the album out and give it a serious listen 😉

- Off-topic mode on @hyendaudio: Ahh, Dynaudio Confidence 5? Great Speaker! - Off-topic mode off 😉

I think @CatManDo has meant the BDP-180 instead of the BDP-160.

I've listened to both versions ("International" and "German"), and couldn't find a dropout. Maybe a re-extraction might help?

Haven't encountered this kind of problem either - up to now. Usually the extraction adds a tracknumber and name to the file? I also do own the mentioned discs (the complete set), but haven't ripped/extracted it up to now, as I also have a/the remaster as PCM files.

Hi! First: Usually you should check the "Convert DST to DSD" box, as you usually don't want to have compressed data in your extracted files. As mentioned above, *.dsf files can't contain DST compressed data anyway. As for the tagging: I also use Foobar for tagging - and playing - all of my files (including *.dsf and *.dff). Not every tag editor may be able to handle the tags in *.dsf files, but i.e. "mp3tag" can. But as long as you are using Foobar - and you are fine with its handling - there should/would be no need for an external tag editor.

Yes and no ;-) Not every soft- or hardware player can decode DST compressed data/Files. So, maybe you were lucky and all of your ripped/extracted SACDs haven't had DST compressed data, or your player(-software) still decodes it "on the fly". But that would be somewhat unexpected, as - for what I know - *.dsf files could not contain compressed data.