The EMM Labs machine is a swiss army knife. It can do many different types of projects and its capabilities vary depending on the project. The issue for this discussion is DSD to PCM conversion of a ripped SACD. So the specs on other types of conversions by the same machine are not relevant. The machine has built-in limitations for the DSD to PCM conversion of ripped SACDs to be in compliance with Sony intellectual property rights.
Sony marketed SACD to record companies as a way to offer higher fidelity (debatable) than regular red book CDs and at the same time offered a copy protection scheme which was lacking in regular CDs. It is this copy protection scheme which is implemented in the machine used by HDTracks studio for the conversions. In essence, the machine is merely ripping the red book layer of the CD rather than the SACD layer. If the source material was the original studio DSD file, then a higher fidelity conversion could have been done. But since the source material used by HDTracks, at least in these cited examples, was an SACD, the conversion is limited by legal constraints. -- mortslim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mortslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11039 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74688
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