makes me want pull out my Sheffields
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Unsure if you intended to respond to this post:
And if so - I canât say, as I donât have your gear. My experience with DSD-capable players and PCM players (and those that do both) is that if you have one that does one or the other, what you have tends to sound âbestâ.
Actually - that could be extended to most components - if you own it, it tends to sound best. This assumes you donât have the other thing/format to compare it with.
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yes I did I see now its a data disc no worries.
Holy Crap ! You made Gus load and Seran wrap 1000 Disc Jackets ? Doesnât he have enough to to do Paul ? 
badbeef (wish I could address you by name),
Please hear my thoughts on this.
By âjestingâ, I was suggesting that your initial reply must have been just that, because it was insulting. I hoped you were kidding since I just canât see you insulting folks you donât even know to there faceâŠin front of others.
The entire point of my initial comment was that the question posed was honorable and deserved an answer⊠Paul, et al, are almost always responsive and non-evasive in my experience, particularly when so many folks will be wondering the same thing. PSA are big boys and girls and usually very stand-up, as I know you âChampionâ.
Off this subject, but if I donât say it to you, Iâll be very unhappy. You recently mentioned your good living experiences with Cops or something like that and were immediately chastised and apologized. Your voiced perspective was âspot onâ!!
âYepâ, right now politics is best left out of a hobbyist dialogue, however, I have a great deal of life experience with professional lawmen and women, local and federal. With the usual rarest of exception, they are good, giving and truly sacrificial peopleâŠnothing like being broad brushed in this national crisis, today.
Wishing You and Your Family Well,
John
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Only the PS Audio PWTâs and Sony Playerâs extract the SACD layer off of a disc without converting it to PCM over HDMI/I2S to my knowledge. The rest of 'em even with DSD playback over HDMI are doing a DSD over PCM conversion and then back to DSD inside the DAC.
The âUniversalâ disc (Iâm assuming) has both and is simply files burned to a disc just like a USB memory stick (OK, manufactured is a better use of words) . Bad Beef actually has the disc and is now having to answer everything here. Any BluRay player (and maybe even some older DVD Uni-Players) will easily play the PCM tracks but the âSACDâ is actually .dff or equivalent files that you store on your computer and play the DSD files back that way. Unlike the old SACD discs.
Either Iâve clarified things or confused things further.
Ordered earlier today. Wondering if the data disc high res PCM will play in my PWT or only the CD layer of the SACD disc. Looking forward to this most excellent piano experience.
Thanks,
Kurt
How many more until youâre sold out?!
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Iâm not lazy. I simply donât have a way of ripping CDs. And of course I would pay to support artists and PS Audio. I only download files that I pay for â Iâm not some Napster troll.
I visited PS Audio back in January, and Gus kindly hosted me in the recording studio for about 30 minutes. He was a genuinely nice and talented person, and I was really excited to get a recording. To be honest, I was slightly surprised that a digital download didnât exist and disappointed that I had no way of playing this inaugural release.
No matter, I love PS Audio regardless. I come to this forum several times every day, but Iâm pretty shy and donât post often. (BadBeefâs hostile and presumptive response doesnât help.) Also, given PS Audioâs usual transparency, I felt comfortable asking a question about their reasoning for excluding downloads.
I hope future releases are available by download. And if not⊠guess what, Iâm still a PS Audio fanboy and lover / supporter of great music.
Also Mark
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Understood. Iâm out.
The website states: âThis two-disc set includes a dual-layer SACD with pure DSD as well as a uniquely mastered CD layer.â
How is the CD layer âuniquely mastered?â
Including a high resolution PCM and DSD version on the data disc is a great touch.
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Damn, I missed it. Ended at 9:00 Eastern. Iâm not a Facebook user and refuse to get an account. Really annoying how many things that pre-COVID 19 I could have accessed are now Facebook Live only. A few folks make them available without an account, I think this one was, but still annoys me to no end âŠ
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Iâm really interested in buying this. Anyone doing a review on it yet? Any sample tracks (low res fine)âŠ
There are previews of the tracks on the website.
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I actually know quite a bit about Don Grusin who is a Jazz Pianist. But the âOut of Thin Airâ has a Classical feel to me. My comment wasnât asking if it was Jazz or Classical.
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Oh, sure, Mark. The SACD discs were made in Austria and come on spindles. The covers and datadiscg are made in New Jersey. Normally, we would send the SACD spindles to the New Jersey pressing plant and they would assemble them together, shrink wrap the package and weâre good to go.
Because of COVID, the New Jersey Disc Makerâs plant wonât accept anything delivered from outside. So, Gus has to hand place every SACD into every one of the 2-disc sets.
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Yup, understood. Itâs why we put the sampler up so people can see if it matches their listening preferences or not.
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We made it a physical purchase only because we do not currently have the engineering manpower to build a download server with all the codes and safeguards comparing purchases with download rights. Our engineering team is on a pretty strict schedule and adding another project in wasnât in the cards. Over time we will certainly add downloads and maybe even vinyl.
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