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Got it figured out! It was not the software or the sacd player, it was a dirty disc. I cleaned it up low and behold, it ripped properly.

I have ripped other discs after this one. I will try and power it down again.

So do your files, do they go on the flash drive? I should point out that the files get ripped but when I play back the files I get an error: Unable to open item for playback (Seek offset out of range): "E:\Various Artists - Original Soundtrack - O Brother, Where Art Thou\01 - James Carter & the Prisoners - Po Lazarus.dff" Unable to open item for playback (Seek offset out of range): "E:\Various Artists - Original Soundtrack - O Brother, Where Art Thou\02 - Harry McClintock - Big Rock Candy Mountain.dff"

Found an SACD that does not rip well. The soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou. Tried ripping it twice and file always comes out as unreadable. No problems with the other's I have ripped.

Well, got my BDP-s390 and a remote for it. I have had it for a couple of weeks, mainly just checking it out. Tonight I ripped my first SACD, and working on my second one.. We shall see how it works on more!

Ok I have a couple of questions. First how is the sound quality of the Sony BDP-S590 when playing SACD’s? I understand that it can play SACD-R disc’s is this correct? And last if it can play SACD-R discs, can that dsd by passed through the digital out?

This maybe a really dumb question. If sacd capable player has HDMI out put, could one not input the HDMI to a computer and extract the signal directly and record it? The player has the software and hardware to play sacd disc's and transmit it over HDMI. For example, the newer Sony BDP-s6100 only has HDMI out, no analog. So to play an sacd disc, it would have to send the dsf signal over the HDMI (originally the idea wad to a dsf capable surround reciever). So if the computer can recieve the dsf signal, why not record it?

I have a Adcom GDC 600 that is an 18 bit R2R dac. Still use it even through it is 25 years old.

Question? Can the optical drive be fited to a computer from a PS3? as I understand it, the optical drive has special features that allow the detection and playing of a SACD disc.

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I currently have a HP 230w I purchased it from Wal-Mart a few years ago. I really did not realize how slow it was until put a .org DS-DAC 100M on it. That's when I found out it is only 15 kHz, and the graphics are interested on the CPU. Any way, it now cuts out if I am surfing the web, which it does not do when I use foobar2000, with any dac. The korg uses Audiogate, which is great, but because it upsamples, it is prone to having delay issues when I surf the webb at the same time. Any recommendations for a decent computer that will not cut out like that. USED OR LAPTOP could be ok.

Check out the Monoprice Planar headphones. They have over the ear headphones from $199 to about $325. I have the M1060 over ear open back ones, and they sound very good for the price.

If 90% of your music is Red Book 16/44 then you maybe want to stick with modi single bit, the multi bit actually only passes 16 bit, and discards the remaining bits. Unless you have your heart set on the multi bit version, you actually get better bit depth with the single bit delta sigma dac. One other point to consider is that even the best dac's only resolve about 19 bits, many even less. Read some of Stereophiles reviews and check the measurements and see. Now, many prefer a multi bit dac and feel they sound better. I have some single bit dac's that sound very good, and a 25 year old multi bit dac that I keep because it sounds very good as well. So, even if you increase your 24/96(192) collection, you will not see the full bit depth with any current consumer dac's. One other thing to consider, are the 24 bits actual bits, or just upsampled 16 bit sources, which a few releases have been proved to be. Another option to consider is a Korg ds-dac 100 series and the Audiogate software that comes with it. Audiogate can convert on the fly files up to 24/192, or to dsd 2.8 or 5.6. I have one and it sounds great, but I am looking myself at getting a modi 3 uber or maybe the multibit.

About 6 musical fidelity x-dac msb audio alchemy dac in a box adcom gfd600 psaudio link dac III cyberdrive clarity feather I still have the last 3