"braxus" wrote in message news:bdZXb.43690$uV3.85451@attbi_s51...
The DSD encoder inside the DVD 2900 is a chip made by Texas instruments,
the DSD1790. I looked for it on the Texas instruments site and found
that they don't publish the info on it anymore, but they do have a 1791
chip. I assume that it must be very similar to the 1790. Read about the
1791s capabilities here;

From that link it gives me the impression the chip converts DSD to 24 bit. I
thought Denon advertised DSD stayed in that native format when output. Also
didn't it say somewhere the player uses Sony's second generation DSD decoder
from the ES models?

DSD1791 chip "Supports both DSD and PCM formats" (reference the
aforementioned link to PDF provided to Texas instruments web site).

To me, this means that the 24 bit does not necessarily refer to the
chip's handling of DSD - it is a multifunctioning device. Beyond
that, literature like this is making me feel like the monkeys in 2001!