Anyone Playing SACD/DVD-As on a PC ?

The Creative Audigy's sound pretty bad though...

I am meeting with someone who is doing CD's. He is feeding the computer signal through a modified Benchmark DAC. I will post more after I hear it.

Don't know if this is a clue, but Mark Levinson used to have a hard drive based Sony SACD machine in his ill fated Red Rose store.

But maybe that was all proprietary Sony stuff inside?

Why couldnt we get this on a PC - interesting question.

I came across this over at ecoustics

http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=14550899

The ecoustics thread is also relevant

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/1/42560.html

I'm using WINDVD6 through an Audiofile 24/96 cdrs are recorded using discWelder Chrome on an NEC 3520A. Can only really check this is all working by ear and it sounds pretty good. Have been AB-ing the new Goldfrapp album the cd sounds like an mp3 but the DVDA is ok just about good cd-like. So that's a positive forward step - NOT. Just goes to show how dependent we are on software and how the quality of it varies.