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How would we go about that?

I agree, that's why I experiment as I go. my next step is to try the 2012/AO setup.

Please keep in mind that I'm asking questions not making statements of fact. Thanks to information I've found on this site I can honestly say that this medium has the ability to meet or surpass the quality of other 2 channel source mediums I use. My thoughts are based on experience gained in the data center not the media pc world. That said from my view point it seems logical that once you've loaded the bits in memory all that needs to take place is for them be moved to the DAC. I understand that this requires use of hardware drivers and processing but that should be very minimal. It doesn't or at least seems like it shouldn't need Jriver or in my setup windows audio drivers at this point. I would also think the output wouldn't be susceptible to any interference from hard drive motors spinning etc. If I'm way off I'm sure there's a thread someplace that will get me up to speed. If there is please paste in the link. If not, if you could take the time to provide a high level over view of where my thought process went wrong it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

We're saying that Win 2012 R2 with AO removes as much OS interference from the signal chain as possible therefore lowering the "noise floor" and increasing overall resolution. I'm running a dedicated media pc via a Dell workstation with dual xeon processors, 16gb ecc ram, Samsung 128 gig pro SSD, No name USB 3 pci card, WD Green 1tb internal storage drive, Win 8.1 and JRiver, Audioquest USB to a McIntosh MAC6700 the DAC on the McIntosh is capable of 32/192 pcm. I have Jriver set to play everything from memory, for the most part anytime I've monitored it's resources while Jriver is running it's basically using no resources, the fans never even kick in. I've experimented with Jplay and did hear a difference if Jplay wasn't so unstable with my McIntosh drivers I'd use it. I'm going to take a shot at 2012 & AO and expect to hear a difference with that setup but I don't understand why? Jriver playing from memory should negate interference from the OS or anything downstream of memory so why/how can anything improve on something that should be removed from the equation?

Hi all, First time I've posted, been lurking on CA for a few weeks great site. I just signed up for 1, now I'm thinking I'll need 2. I've been all over ebay and Craigslist to find either a PS3 or a person who can downgrade the firmware chip on my original sacd capable PS3 and load the software needed to rip. I hardly ever used the unit it would be great to be able to use it to rip sacd's but this idea sounds like a much better solution. Anyone know when Mr. Wicked will get to a point where he can say if he'll actually be able to pull this off or not?