Is DSD download already an extinct format?

Dagogo just reviewed the Teac PD-501. The unit plays regular CD's + DSD downloads without the need for a computer when playing the discs. The review was very positive, especially when the unit was playing DSD. If I did do digital, this would be an interesting option.

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The problem here is not DSD hardware availability, it's the content. I'm so tired to receive e-mails from HDTracks and Acoustic Sounds wanting me to purchase the same music in a plethora of digital formats. There is a limit in abusing the music consumer. The music Industry dictates what we should buy, by changing the music playback formats to suck every penny from the music lovers. Remember that vinyl basically disappeared in the 80's?

This is when I decided to sell my JA Mitchell Gyrodeck/Zeta tonearm and Koestsu Rosewood signature. I am an avid music lover/buyer and could not get my vinyls from my favorite artists no more. I started to listen to CD's which audio quality really sucked bad when they came out. I have collected of over 1,200 CDs and you know what? Record companies came out with DVD-A (which failed miserably), SACD, Blue-Ray audio disc and DSD which looks so promising on paper.

Now when I go to my local record store, vinyls are returning and cannot afford to purchase back my vinyl playing gear anymore with the stratospheric pricing of TT/tonearms/cartridge. Should have never sold that gear :-(

I have always been honest with the artists by paying 100% of all music content I have in my library. Artists, get together and get rid of the middle man (record companies) which is killing the Music Industry.

Major Label Record Companies, I do not like you!!!

Dasign, I don't know what Sony is thinking either. We've been promised high-res downloads for many years now and finally about a year ago Sony tells us, "Here comes the big push! We're going to have servers and tons of downloads everywhere!" And then...nothing!

As you said, same old albums but priced even higher, when all they have to do is electronically send files to the resellers. They won't even tell us what the source for the file is.

What are they thinking? That they're going to get the free Mp3 crowd to buy into high-res downloads, not even a physical product, at $25 an album?

I haven't given up all hope yet, but I'm not buying in until the server and download situation improves significantly. I have enough music so that I can listen to a variety of great music if I never buy another Lp, Cd, Sacd or download again and I'm sure that there are a lot of other people in the same position.

I think that this is their last chance to get it right or the major music groups are going to be sitting on huge worthless catalogs of music for a long time.

Tape isn't hi Rez

Stuck with vinyl, for the most part skipped CDs. But what I had bought, I ripped to a music server and sold back to a used cd store. Down load now. Wait for sales, 10, 15 sometimes 20% off. Mostly HD tracks. Tried DSD heard no real advantage. Don't be mad at the music industry. Nobody held a gun to your head. Just think before you buy. Buy a used tt set up or just stick to on sale downloads. Music soothes the soul. So listen, enjoy, be happy.