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Say I have a universal player (which converts DSD

DSD?

to PCM and outputs
24bit/192kHz e.g. Pioneer DV-600AV-S ) with HDMI out, and I connect a
convertor which splits out the digital audio into an optical signal
which I
send to a DAC (say Benchmark DAC1).
1.Will this work at all?
2.Will the copy protection on the discs make it fail?
3.Are all SACD/DVD-A discs copy protected?


I've been experimenting recently with the HDMI output from an upscaling DVD
player, striping out the audio in the way you suggest and feeding it to a
DAC. It works fine with all the DVDs I've tried it with (inc. copy
protected). These are all video DVDs (I have no audio ones) and the audio
was at 48k (as my hearing doesn't extend to 96kHz).

David.