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A while back, I went out and bought a relatively cheap Sony SACD player. I don't have a Home Theater Receiver, or 5.1 surround sound... but I do have 5.1 for my PC. I know that there is no way to "play" the DSD layer of SACD on a PC, but I thougt I could connect the Optical output on the SACD player to the Optical input of my Sound Plaster Audigy 2 Platinum card. Optical I/O can transfer 5.1 surround sound audio, so I thought this would work.
It does not.
The Optical I/O does handle 5.1 surround sound audio, but not the high resolution DSD audio that is present in the SACD layer. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was my test SACD. However, if you were desperate for 5.1 DSD audio, you might try this...
On the back of the SACD player are 6 RCA outputs for the Center, Front Left/Right, Surround Left/Right, LFR channels. Connect these to your Aux In 2 connectors on any Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum front bay and this [will] transfer the high resolution audio. I captured the audio using Adobe Audition 1.5 and analyzed the frequencies and found that after capturing Track 1's CD layer, then the SACD layer, I found that it was definitely getting the high resolution layer. Record all 6 channels seperately in mono using Adobe Audition 1.5 at 192000 Htz 32-bit (WARNING: very big files!) and then edit and mix all 6 files using the multichannel encoder to create one 5.1 channel file.
This would require a lot of time and HD space, but if you really want it, that's the only way I've found that will work. For me, I'm saving up my money.
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