Thread: 1st Post - Oppo DV980H SACD DSD to which DSD enabled A/V Receiver?

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Post by DireWolf September 11, 2008 (1 of 94)
Greetings,

This is my 1st Post and I need to know which DSD enabled A/V Receiver my Oppo DV980H SACD DSD will sound best together?

The Onkyo 875/876 are too big, heavy and run hot. I'm disabled and my younger brother will be doing the grunt work for me.

Any help would be greatly welcomed.

Thank You,

DireWolf

Post by soundboy September 11, 2008 (2 of 94)
DireWolf said:

Greetings,

This is my 1st Post and I need to know which DSD enabled A/V Receiver my Oppo DV980H SACD DSD will sound best together?

The Onkyo 875/876 are too big, heavy and run hot. I'm disabled and my younger brother will be doing the grunt work for me.

Any help would be greatly welcomed.

Thank You,

DireWolf

Yamaha 663....street price $400.00

Post by DireWolf September 11, 2008 (3 of 94)
soundboy said:

Yamaha 663....street price $400.00

Thanks for being the first to answer my question and recommending the Yamaha 663 as a top pick.

Post by DireWolf September 11, 2008 (4 of 94)
soundboy,

I'm sorry - I went to the Yamaha website and read through all the specs and did not see any mention of DSD. Am I missing something obvious or is this feature available on a different model?

Post by Paul Clark September 11, 2008 (5 of 94)
DireWolf said:

soundboy,

I'm sorry - I went to the Yamaha website and read through all the specs and did not see any mention of DSD. Am I missing something obvious or is this feature available on a different model?

Yamaha RX-V663
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=995796

I have a previous Yamaha model RX-V661 and it accepts DSD.

Post by Windsurfer September 12, 2008 (6 of 94)
Paul Clark said:

Yamaha RX-V663
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=995796

I have a previous Yamaha model RX-V661 and it accepts DSD.

A pertinent question is what doe it do with it - convert it to analogue OR convert it to PCM and from there to analogue?

Post by FunkyMonkey September 12, 2008 (7 of 94)
Windsurfer said:

A pertinent question is what doe it do with it - convert it to analogue OR convert it to PCM and from there to analogue?

A question to which no answer has yet been discerned regarding Onkyo HD generation receivers as of yet!

Not even from Onkyo, who I have to slate for customer communications generally!

Post by carledwards September 12, 2008 (8 of 94)
DireWolf said:

...I need to know which DSD enabled A/V Receiver my Oppo DV980H SACD DSD will sound best together?

A term like "best" is highly subjective so there's really no way to answer your question. I have personally used the Yamaha 1800 with the Oppo 980 in DSD streaming mode as opposed to PCM. And it sounds good...to me. It also sounds pretty much the same in PCM mode. Again, to my ears.

Good luck.

Post by Windsurfer September 12, 2008 (9 of 94)
carledwards said:

A term like "best" is highly subjective so there's really no way to answer your question. I have personally used the Yamaha 1800 with the Oppo 980 in DSD streaming mode as opposed to PCM. And it sounds good...to me. It also sounds pretty much the same in PCM mode. Again, to my ears.

Good luck.

Again it will likely NOT matter if the player sends a DSD stream or a PCM stream to a receiver or preamp with converters that change it to PCM as part of or before the A to D conversion.

Do you know what the Yamaha does in that regard?

Post by DireWolf September 12, 2008 (10 of 94)
Hello Everyone,

I'm new at this so I apologize for any confusion on my part.

I chose the Oppo 980 over the Oppo 983 because the Oppo 980 uses DSD for SACD and the 983 does not. A friend told me that since I had a large number of DSD SACD I should go with the 980 and use the savings to apply towards a quality A/V Receiver that accepts DSD to DSD for optimal playback. I took his word at this. However, neither of us know of any A/V Receivers that do this - since we lack the prerequisite technical knowledge of what is available.

By sounding "best" together I was trying to convey that I wanted the benefit of your forum expertise in guiding me towards a winning combo sonically. I did not want to rush out and buy just anything.

Sonystyle lists three ES receivers that do dsd to dsd. The least expensive one is $1500.00 and seems to have a great many other features. I made it half way through the Yamaha offerings and could not find a candidate that explicitly stated DSD to DSD. Likewise, the Marantz website is also somewhat vague. The $1400 Marantz SR7002 claims to do DSD decoding but I'm not sure if it is direct.

Onkyo SR876 seems to be the only Onkyo that does DSD processing in Direct Mode.
However, it weighs 50LBS. and goes for around $1,600 on sale.

I will finish up going through the Yamaha website tonight.

What about Pioneer, Pioneer Elite, or Panasonic?

I appreciate the comments made and suggestions given so far. If anyone knows for a certainty which make and model meet my criteria and sound equally well with movies and music - please let me know.

Thanks and I really mean it,

DireWolf

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