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Utilizing PC, options for downloading muti-channel

I am rather new to utilizing PC Downloads as source for Stereo System. Still utilizing Pioneer DV-58AV to read
multi-channel SACD/DVD-Audio High Rez. Disks. Pioneer will
downmix these multi-channel disks to 2-channels, which I need for 2-channel Headphone System. PC DVD ROM will not read or rip these multi-channel disks. These same multi-channel high-rez. Recordings are available for downloading.
Is there any WAV downloading program that can not only
download multi-channel High-Rez onto PC, but also provide
for downmixing? Are there any Music Servers that can rip
a copy of a multi-channel high rez.disk, and provide for
downmixing at its output? Is this downmixing done in the
Analog or Digital Domain? What would be the best way to
transmit these type of recordings in a PC/Music Server
system. USB to DAC? USB from PC to Music Server after
downloading? I ask this because these multi-channel
downmixed recordings sound to me to be the best Digital
Recordings that I have ever heard. There doesn't seem to be a transition from Disk to PC/Music Server for these type
of Recordings with downmixed option. Is there even a Music
Server that can even store multi-channel high-rez. recordings? Is there even a PC/Music Server with a ROM
Drive that can even read these disks? Is there even an
external ROM Drive for a PC that can read these multi-
channel disks? If not, then maybe Computer based Systems
are a bad idea after all. No matter which Computer Expert
I talk to, no-one seems to have the answer to these questions. They just look at me like I am from another
Planet.
pettyofficer
pettyofficer OP
462 posts
 
It just seems to me that for Music Serving application,
just to rip a copy of these multi-channel disks onto
a Hard Drive, you need some kind of a ROM Drive just to
read the Disk. You would need one that not only read
multi-channel DVD-Audio High Rez. but Multi-channel SACD
as well. Maybe Pioneer can install a USB on their Universal
player. Please tell me that there isn't something that a
Universal Player can do (via Disk) that a PC/Music Server
can't via ripping the same multi-channel Disks. Downloading multi-channel, perhaps, but where is the
hardware (ROM Drive) for ripping multi-channel SACD/DVD-Audio High Rez. Disks in PC/Music Servers. Oops! Did
someone drop the ball? Maybe I won't be tossing away my
Silver Disks anytime soon.
pettyofficer OP
462 posts
 
Pettyofficer eating crow. I stand corrected. The LG DVD
ROM on my Computer most certainly can read the 6 Channel
Dianna Krall Advanced Resolution MLP DVD Audio Disk.
DVD Extractor can indeed rip these disks as was E-mailed
to me by those who offer DVD Extractor. Being a novice
at all of this, I have had to rely on some very bad advice
from so called Computer Audiophiles. Some of these have
sworn up and down that no Computer DVD ROM can read these
Disks. Really!
dnewhous's avatar
dnewhous
68 posts
 
The only surround sound downmixing algorithms in the world that are worth anything are DTS headphone and DTS virtual speaker. Now that you bring it up, an enterprising hacker might be able to figure out how to run high-res surround sound through the DTS downmixing filters from Arcsoft TotalMedia player. It's not a hopeless quest. I would go to the Doom9 forums where the real experts on this issue reside.
pettyofficer OP
462 posts
 
I would be happy with the downmixing process utilized in
the Pioneer DV-58AV. IF you could apply that to a 6 Channel
Advanced Resolution ripped copy of Dianna Krall "The Look
Of Love", could it possibly get any better? They are no
longer going to produce Advanced Resolution Multi-Channel
Disks anymore. Only a handful exist now. Obviously, not
a whole lot of new material available for ripping. The only
access to these type of recordings will be downloading.
I smell the foul stench of someone burning their bridges
behind themselves. Whenever that smell gets super heavy,
it always makes me wary.
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dtc
1,047 posts
 
If by DVD Extractor you are referring to DVD Audio Extractor from Computer Audio Solution (CAS) (the one I referred to above), then I believe it can read the 6 channel audio and downmix it to 2 channel. Have you tried that?

Many DVD Audios have both 2 channel and 6 channel hi rez tracks. If so, you can just extract the 2 channel files. In fact, looking at the Krell DVD-A, I think it has 2 channel tracks at 24 bit/96khz (according to CDUniverse) It may be that the 2 channel on that disc may be better than a 6 channel downmix.
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