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Does PCM have any advantages over DSD for SACD?

April 26, 2017advantages DSD PCM SACD

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Does PCM have any advantages over DSD for SACD?

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Setting SACD to PCM will allow the BDP-83’s audio DSP to provide processing such as bass management, channel delays, channel trim, or Pro Logic II. It can’t do those things when SACD is set to DSD. Volume control is also bypassed at the moment, but that may change in the future. Despite the conversion concerns mentioned previously, PCM output for SACD will still produce a very high quality audio stream.

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Setting SACD to PCM will allow the BDP-83’s audio DSP to provide local signal processing such as bass management, downmixing, channel delays and channel trim. It can’t do those things when SACD is set to DSD. Selecting PCM also lets AVRs that cannot decode DSD directly play SACDs by losslessly transcoding DSD to PCM and sending it over the HDMI connection. Despite the conversion concerns mentioned previously, PCM output for SACD will still produce a very high quality audio stream.