Does The PerfectWave SACD Transport decode pre emphasis?

As the title states, Does The PerfectWave SACD Transport decode pre emphasis?

Not in the PerfectWave SACD.

It can be decoded in DACs such as the DSD MK2:

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Yes, it does-sort of. It recognizes the preemphasis flag and sends it along to a DAC that can deal with it like our DACs an.

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what is pre-emphasis?

I’ve seen this with the Soulution 757 ā€˜pre-emphasis’ phono pre-amp

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Elk, your post reminded my of my very recent experiences using the Chrome AI search engine to research and trouble shoot various ā€œaudiophileā€ questions and topics; from acoustics to specifications and reviews to ā€œbest practicesā€.

I encourage others to start using this or similar tools if you are not familiar with them. Its a whole new ā€œsearchā€ world and this kind of research is now invaluable.

Cheers.

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My experience as well. I found this search to be very helpful.

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I’ve found it to be a very useful tool. The results should be viewed critically as most everything else should. One response I got asking for an audio-related opinion included as part of the response something I myself had written years ago in an audio blog.

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I have the Holo Audio Spring 3 DAC.

Absolutely. That said, the inclusion of references and ā€œstrings to pullā€ as you dive deeper using the algorithms is critically (in both senses of the word) helpful.

Cheers

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It knows you are legit!

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