blu-ray coaxial outputs limited rez to dacs?


I have not been here so long I forgot my login!  Anyway, is it impossible to get the hi rez audio from a typical blu ray on the coaxial audio output?  Got ahold of a Pure Audio blu ray disc of music.  Supposed to be 24/96 format.  My player is putting out only 16/48 into the dac according to the dac display.  So I went into player menu and made sure the "downsampling"  selection was in the off position.  Still, only the lower rez data showing up into the dac.  So does that mean I would need a mega bucks blu ray to get the actual hi rez or what?  The dac oversamples it up before decoding but is supposed to be happy to accept stuff up to 192/24 I think.
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Please the text below from The Absolute Sound:

"On Blu-ray Disc sources played back by the Oppo BP-95, the HDACC did a superb job of handling the HDMI digital stream and converting it into pristine sound. On the live music albums where I had the option, I preferred the sound from the higher-resolution LPCM soundtracks to the standard-resolution and down-mixed two-channel streams via SPDIF or TosLink. With most two-channel DAC/pre’s, I would not have had the option of using these higher-resolution tracks via HDMI simply because they do not have those inputs. Some audiophiles may want to acquire an HDACC for the primary purpose of using it to decode Blu-ray HDMI feeds for their 2.1 high-performance system".

Please review the Essense DAC HDACC.


If you have the Oppo BDP-93 or BDP-103, another option is the Audiopraise Vanity HD card. It's a little pricey at $849, but it replaces all your analog outs with digital outs that offer the full resolution digital tracks from Blu-ray discs. There's a version that even does DSD over PCM for SACDs.

http://audiopraise.com/vanityhd/overview.php
Not having high hundreds or thousands available right now to guy yet another box for my system I thought I would be clever.  Saw a little bitty box on ebay that supposedly takes the HDMI out of the bluray and extracts  24/196 to coaxial or toslink outputs.  And runs off a USB port so I had to buy a little tiny USB walwort thinggee too. But the total expenditure was about 20$ maybe.  So I tried it all today.  Seems I can get either 16/192 or 24/48 by what I select on the player menu but not 24/192 data stream.  Or even 24/96 which the disc is supposed to be.  From observing the input rate display on the DAC. Oh well, best cut my losses,  find a buyer for a hardly used disc, and perhaps get my vinyl source back into the mix despite some inconvenience of setting it up.