24/96 DAC + DVD Player - Help

As far as I'm aware the only discs that have 96/24 tracks are Digital Audio Disks (DAD, very rare species, some on Chesky). This format has failed to make an impact and is overtaken by SACD and DVD-A. To play this over your DAC, you would have to set the digital output to this resolution somewhere in your set-up, if indeed your DVD player allows you to. Normal "Movie" DVDs will only output at 48Khz. Anyone that's aware of high rez soundtracks, please correct me if I'm wrong on this one.

Just because it is a 24/96 or 24/192 DAC means little by itself, regarding at what sampling rate it will play a CD. Without some kind up upsampling devise, a Redbook CD will play at 44.1 simply because it was made to play at that sampling rate.

As usual, Sugarbrie is correct! Your transport/player needs to have an "upsampler" to output anything above 44.1K when playing a standard (redbook) CD.

Interestingly, my Cary CD-308 is an "upsampling" player and outputs a 24/96 signal at the digital out when set to the upsampling mode. I was surprised that the upsampling was done at the "transport" level and not in the DAC(analog) section.

BTW, my Birdland Odeon Lite DAC sounds much better (to my ear) when feed a 24/96K signal.

Enjoy,

TIC

Thanks for the info everybody! I did not expect anything above 44k from CDs, but was surprised to only see 48k on recent DVDs, like Live in Paris from Diana Krall, and All This Time (Sting). It is correct that I was talking about the setup menu when turning off DD and defaulting to D-PCM. But my DVDs don't have any menus that allow for sampling rate selection. Looks like I have to get a different DVD player to make the most of this DAC. I'm not concerned about upsampling my CDs, because this DAC is warm and detailed, perfect for most CDs. I do need to snag a Monarchy DIP 24/96 to see what this thing can really do.