How does Yamaha CD S2000 reproduce super audio?

The Yamaha CD-S1000 uses the PCM1796 DAC chip.

You know, all CD's and SACD's are not created equal.

Go over to this website and see if some of your CD's and SACD's are listed and look at the DR values of each.

Here is a great example of a CD recording being far superior in dynamic range than the SACD version of the same album.

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=dire+straits&album=

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/103605

VS

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/116588

And yet another SACD recording that has an excellent DR value. 

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/70186

Bill

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The Yamaha CD-S1000 uses the PCM1796 DAC chip.

You know, all CD’s and SACD’s are not created equal.

Go over to this website and see if some of your CD’s and SACD’s are listed and look at the DR values of each.

Here is a great example of a CD recording being far superior in dynamic range than the SACD version of the same album.

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=dire+straits&album=

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/103605

VS

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/116588

And yet another SACD recording that has an excellent DR value.

http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/70186

Bill

While I use this site as a bible to get the best CD release for the best DR. Then buy it s/h on ebay because it usually the oldest, using that Catalog number.

You’ll usually find that re-masters or latest versions have been compressed, and have inferior DR, they’re just louder.
The oldest ones might be lower in level, but they have the greatest DR. 1985 up to 20 DR
http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=dire+straits&album=Brothers+In+Arms

Cheers George

IMO, it could be that when playing the SACD version, there is more actual musical information there, versus the CD layer, which must then be accurately reproduced and revealed by the amplification chain. The effect of any distortion or lack of dynamics in the amplification could be more apparent than with the CD layer?