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  1. I have been asked in e-mail to comment on how I am playing SACD and DVD-A through the DAC2. This topic has already been discussed ad infinitum here and elsewhere, but here it is: Oppo BDP83SE ---> Cardas HDMI Cable ---> Atlona AT-HD577 (de-embedder) ---> Grover Huffman digital cable (coax) ---> W4S DAC2 Of course, this is not really a PURE approach for SACD since the Oppo pre-processes SACD into PCM and the DSD signal doesn't actually touch the DAC2. Additionally, with the Oppo and using this approach my DAC2 gets an 88.2K signal as opposed to the SACD's potential of 176.4K. With certain Sony transports and very early Sony PS machines others have been able to lock on at 176.4K. For DVD-A, I do get 192K from those discs which have been mastered at that level (Jackson Browne's Running On Empty, for example) and 96K from just about everything else. I have not tried it with Blu-Ray discs yet. Keep in mind that this is a stereo only solution. But the sound improvement of taking things through the DAC2 is at least a couple orders of magnitude to my ears. If anyone is interested in this approach, I'm sure it won't be hard to find the applicable thread elsewhere in this forum.
  2. (joeling) Also like the W4S DAC2 (I feel that this DAC is a giant killer). I currently have this DAC in my system. It's pretty amazing. At a much higher price point, I might recommend the Weiss...but the W4S DAC2 has turned out to be a big surprise. It's been an absolute defibrillator to just about every redbook CD I own. It's no slouch with SACD and DVD-A either. Even after 3 months with it I still feel like I got FAR more than my money's worth. There aren't too many things I can say that about these days.
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