Recently purchases a Marantz Model 30 integrated amp. Now I’m eyeing the matching SACD 30n streamer, DAC, and SACD player (all in one). Watched a YouTube video of the Marantz designers introducing the products. When discussing the SACD player the engineer noted that it’s designed to play DSD file…

Can this streamer play files. Wouldn’t it be easilier to just play the files instead? I don’t know if Sony would allow someone to make a bunch of SACDs from a file and distribute it to everyone. But that hasn’t stop anyone from doing it before.

For the PWT it was as simple as dragging them onto a blank DVD disk. See here: [image] PWT - Well that's cool! Audio Components I am going to simply drag the .wavs from the samper to a blank DVD and hit burn in the finder and see if it can read that. edit: it does! playi…

You mean to tell me you can burn DSD files to a DVD disk also? Or are you just talking about just PCM files.

I would guess any file can be burned to a DVD if it fits. The OP said the player is designed to read DSD files burned to DVDs. I was pointing out that on a Mac the burning functionality is built into the Finder.

[image] waymanchen11: You mean to tell me you can burn DSD files to a DVD disk also? Or are you just talking about just PCM files. The Marantz engineer specifically said that the SACD player is designed to play DSD files burned to either DVD-ROM or CD. The idea would be to bypass the compute…

The DSD data disc I got when I bought an earlier release from Octave Records sounds identical to the SACD. I heard no difference, so yes, the sound quality is exactly the same. So there you have it, there’s a way to record your DSD files on a disc and play it back with this Marantz.

@waymanchen11 that’s fabulous. I think I’ll delay my foray into vinyl and get the SACD player first. Of course few DSD albums will fit on a CD, so it would have to be DVD…

[image] dancingsea: The Marantz engineer specifically said that the SACD player is designed to play DSD files burned to either DVD-ROM or CD They’ll be recognized and played as DSD files stored on optical media, i.e. DVD. No different from files stored on HDD, SSD, or memory stick inserted on…

Please elaborate. Are you saying that DSD files burned to a DVD-R will not sound like SACD’s, but instead like MP3’s? Back in the day of my CD burning, files burned to a CD sounded exactly the same as the original factory pressed CD. There was not degradation. Are you saying that with DSD/ SACD’…

No not at all. I meant they’d still be seen by the player as files, but instead of reading them from a LAN cable or USB port, it will read them from the surface of your DVD. There is no sonic advantage to moving them from your current storage to optical media. You may as well buy a portable SSD a…

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For the PWT it was as simple as dragging them onto a blank DVD disk. See here:

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