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Originally Posted by Travis
When signal is sent from a player like mine, via analog, no conversion or compression is done, right?
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Well, in that situation, the DSD has already been converted to analog in the player. At that point, it's just like any other analog signal, the same as those that were converted from PCM.
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If a player doesn't do DSD over HDMI, should you connect with 6 analogs?
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If the player converts it to PCM prior to transmission, then analog cables aren't required.
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I see Marantz UD5005 and UD7006 have "DSD from SACD via HDMI." Important?
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Some people think so. Others don't.
It's actually kind of hard to determine whether players and processors do direct DSD to analog without an intervening conversion to PCM, especially when you start including processing steps such as bass management. Manuals rarely explain how any of that works.