Bryston BDA-3

I have a lot of SACDs. I am therefore intrigued by this Bryston DAC, claims to decode DSD from SACD over HDMI. I can't find any reviews of the product. Does any one have any experience with it?

mahler12304-02-2016 1:32pm

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erik_squires Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 15,640 posts 02-10-2017 at 02:30am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Hey Mahler! Yeah, it depends on the software I use. I only do DSD via USB to the Mytek.... and unfortunately the Squeezelite agent only does DoP. Quad DSD gets re-sampled to PCM. It's not a hardware limit, I was going to hack the source code and enhance it, but then got sick and couldn't follow through. Best, E
erik_squires Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 15,640 posts 02-09-2017 at 04:21am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete DSD over PCM or DoP really IS DSD. It's just packed inefficiently, so there are limits to the DSD, usually DSD 128 is the maximum. Native DSD is better only because it allows quad DSD over USB, and has no real benefit for playing the round disks, only useful for downloads. Best, E

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