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PENG
Audioholic Slumlord
Agreed.. I used to think dsd 256/512 sounded great, but it really was the recording/mastering that made the difference.DSD playback from disc is not mentioned in the spec sheet. So that receiver does not play an SACD in DSD. In 2 channel I suspect it just plays the CD layer. For multichannel there must be a conversion to PCM. I suspect this is done in the player. If he is getting 44.1 in won't matter whether he listens to the DSD layer or the CD layer for 2 channel as long as the mix is the same. DSD should have never seen the light of day. 2 and multi channel should have always been PCM based.