[alexone]

hi!

anyone knows what signal the Cambridge 752 puts out via HDMI if a SACD is playing? if it should do DoP then i would expect 176.4/24 or 88.2/24 hopefully.

i talked to a dealer and he said that this player converts any incoming signal to 192/24 including SACD (DSD).

is that true??

thanks,

al.

[ted_b]

First off, DoP is not an HDMi streaming method.  Anything coming via HDMi is either DSD or downsampled PCM; in the case of this player it is PCM only (bad idea), probably 24/88 (since it uses the Mediatek chip) then internally upsampled to 24/192 (yuck).  And that PCM'd SACD output is ONLY available to the HDMI outputs, so no luck connecting this to a DAC (unless you use an HDMI de-embeder solution I first started talking about 5 years ago..see below.

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=82217.0

So if I had an AVR that accepts DSD via HDMI I would likely not go for this universal player as it does not send DSD via HDMI.  If you want a BluRay player that sounds good with BluRay material (and upsampled redbook to 24/192) then ok.

[alexone]

thanks, ted! very good info

any recommended player instead the 752 in the same price range ??

al.

[ted_b]

Oppo 105D gets you a legitimate asynch USB DAC too (that does do DoP, etc)