Many if not most of them aren't "pure" DSD, either. Remember too, even many SACDs went thru some PCM stage at some point. Also, high-res PCM actually carries more information than SACD's DSD, so it's not like there's the potential to lose much, provided your system's D/A converter is high-quality. The analog components are likely far more important. So even if they're "pure" DSD, I doubt they'd sound better than a more expensive unit would that could only handle high-res PCM. Keep in mind tho, none of these cheap players are gonna have killer analog components. Since Sony developed all that hardware and has it sitting around, I think it's a fairly safe assumption. Since it can output DSD, my assumption is it's directly converting DSD to analog for its own (stereo - no multichannel) analog outputs, instead of doing a conversion to PCM first. Although based on Philips' second-generation digital filter and 4x oversampled, 16-bit DAC circuitry, it is not a modified. My cheap Sony Blu-ray can send DSD data streams over HDMI, or it can convert them to PCM. For audio, if you connect a Blu-ray Disc player to a home theater receiver via HDMI, there are two main audio output settings available: Bitstream and PCM. This latest Mission CD player has already been reviewed in Stereophile, by George Graves in Vol.10 No.2 and Martin Colloms in Vol.10 No.4, so I will only give it a brief description. Click to expand.I didn't say that my player was sending analog over HDMI.
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