How to rip 20-bit CD(and retain all 20bits) Options

[ben]

I have a 20-bit Telarc CD, and would like to extract it onto my computer. However, I'm not really sure how to go about this without having the WAV truncated to 16-bit. I only have a 16bit soundcard right now, so it's going to get chopped off anyway, but I just want the original, unaltered music in the file.

Any ideas?

[KikeG]

To extract > 16 bit audio from a HDCD the only way I know of that could work is using WMP9 on WinXP, a soundcard capable of 24bit digital output and another one (or the same) with 24bit digital input.

So theoretically it would be possible to playback a HACD using WMP9, and capture the sound with Total Recorder and play it back from wav-files using a 24-bit capable soundcard?

I have already done that, but recording the digital output when playing an HDCD disk with WMP9, instead. I just did a little test some time ago.

There was 24-bit data available at the output, but, first, I haven't checked yet if the output of WMP9 is bit-perfect, and second, who knows if the HDCD decoding of WMP9 is a "proper" decode, equivalent to the one of a hardware decoder.