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Default Oppo BDP-105 vs. SONY SCD-XA5400ES

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Andrew Haley wrote:

Audio_Empire wrote:

This is all fine and good, and perhaps you can even hear "some*"
difference, but it still doesn't alter the fact that the Oppo in
question still uses the same SabreDac 32 which converts DSD to LPCM
before playing it,


I don't think so: according to their white paper, they feed the DSD
data into their anti-imaging filter, which runs at a very high
frequency. There's no suggestion that they downsample it to LPCM
first; or do you have some other information?


They use the SabreDAC 32. It converts DSD to LPCM. My information comes
from the Oppo Technical guy.

Why would downsampling to LPCM do any harm, anyway? All the damage
has been done already during the DSD encoding.


Damage? What damage?

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