This is just out of curiousity, but, how could I rip dylan's SACD remasters on my dvd drive? I've already ripped them, but to do so, I had to put them into the cd burner that couldn't read dvds. When I put it into the dvd drive, it would try to read the SACD layer and then wouldn't run.

You cannot read the SACD layer. You'll be stuck reading the cd layer.


You're option is to connect the outputs from your sacd player to your soundcard inputs and record analog.

What if your SACD Player has Optical Outputs? Could you get the stream that way? At least it would stay digital instead of going Digital->Analog->Digital.

The remasters are probably hybrid sacds; which contains one layer for redbook cd players and one layer for sacd players. What you've ripped is most likely the normal cd version.

The digital outputs are usually disabled during SACD playback, or they are downsampled to 16/44.1 which should be the same as what the CD layer has on it. Right now no way to digitally obtain the DSD/SACD layer. Then there would be the question of what you would do with it when you got it anyway...I'm not sure there are any consumer grade applications that could do anything with a DSD file.

no no, the question was, say I had a dvd-rom drive and a dvd-rw drive in there. How would I get it to read the redbook layer instead of the SACD layer

should read teh red book layer no problem, providing it is a hybrid sacd.

There are a couple of DVD-ROM drives that have major trouble with SACD-hybrid. For example, I used to own a Toshiba laptop DVD-ROM that attempted to read the SACD instead of CD layer on Dylan's Love and Theft (and, of course, failed miserably), my only SACD. My Plextor 12/10/32A rewriter, my usual DAE drive, has no problem with it.

What about one of the hybrid players with HDMI output? Could you just use a HDMI to DVI + Audio converter like this:

http://www.hdtvsupply.com/hdmi-to-dvi-digi...er-adapter.html

and then hook the digital output to your sound card?

Since no one replied I bought a box similar to the one above and it appears to work but it resamples everything. I'm not sure if that's good or bad but I have huge WAV files of SACDs in 32bit 96000 hz format. When I try to choose 192 khz it crackles and pops.

I thought about this more and it's probably the clock in Oppo player that isn't capable of 192khz.