dancremeans

Very interesting. Thanks a lot for "the food for thought" info. I'm already fully in "this camp," as of a few years ago, after I got my first DAC (PS Audio's DAC III, which I'm still using, but would like to go higher in rez, but that's another topic) and compared against the Ayre CD player I had at that time, & could detect "no difference." I knew then (at least for me) that CD players were a thing of the past, and promptly sold mine on ebay. I've been enjoying the convenience & quality sound since. Dan

We're on the same wavelink. "Rumors" was exactly the DVD-A I was able to decode to .mlp (one track). Am I understanding you to say that the "decoded to a PC DVD-A" sounds better than when it's played from the DVD itself? I have an Intel Mac. I suppose I could install Windows on it & try what you're describing, because, at least for now, the MAC side seems unable to do any decoding of DVD-A. Dan

I really don't have it working. I was able to apparently decode and get an .mlp file, but it's relatively useless. I've tried to find an .mlp to "something usable" converter, to no avail. It seems there is no option on the MAC version to decode to anything other than an .mlp file. Frustrating because I can see the tantalizing files listed @ 24/96 rez. Sure wish someone could fix this for the Mac side, I'd even be happy if I could get CD quality. It's too bad because it seems that DVD-A is a defunct format, at least let us recover our investments.

I've downloaded DVDA Explorer for the MAC. I was able to do an extraction on a DVD-A track, but what I get (and it says it was successful) is an .mlp file. Don't know what it is? Mac system doesn't recognize it.