SACD/CD/BLU-RAY-player or transport into Naim DAC-V1

Posted by: Erlend on 01 July 2016

Hi!

Even though I've ripped all my music to hard drives, I would like to have a player or transport to play cd's blu-ray-discs or even sacd's directly through my DAC-V1. Of course I'd like it to output unconverted dsd-audio from sacd through a digital co-axial connection or even BNC. Does anyone know if such a player or transport even exist? Please enlighten me.

Posted on: 03 July 2016 by Jude2012

Adam Zielinski posted:
Erlend posted:
Simon-in-Suffolk posted:
Some current popular quality DAC chips such as from TI can operate with either PCM or Delta Sigma bit streams and so no sample data format conversion is required.
OK. Thanks. So if I use such a player with a sacd record and feed it into my DAC-V1 by digital coax or optical cable, what format will my dac recognize the feed it is given?
Will it recognize it as pcm or dsd? When I feed it through usb the display always tells the sampling rate if it's given pcm and if it's dsd64 or dsd128 if given dsf-files.
The signal will be PCM.

Not sure what you mean by 'player'.

If it's an SACD/Universal player, then the limitations discussed by Eloise and Aleg would be relevant.

If it's a software player (like Bitperfect or Audirvana) , it depends on whether these are set to send DSD files via DoP (I.e. sending the DSD file that appears as PCM to the V1) or natively (the V1 sees a .dsf file, for example) - if a PCM file is seen a sample rate will be displayed, otherwise 'DSD64' will be for a ripped SACD track.