Looking for tech specs to SACD's equivilant of SPDIF.

[Jase]

If one of you knows where can i find or download the scarlet book please let me know it.

Also the red book.

Thanks for your help.

[Charles]

Originally posted by Brian Guralnick
I'm looking for tech specs to SACD's equivilant of SPDIF. In other words, how do they transmit the DSD disc info, or, 6 x 192KHz, 24 bit channels multiplexed on 1 coax, or optical signal.

Is there some sort of "red-book" for SACD?

I think the basic DSD interface (as used in studio equipment) is a three wire coax (BNC) setup, containing:

clock / data right / data left

Whereas data right and data left is just the uncoded flowing sigma delta modulated pulse stream.

The initial idea was to just run this data stream through a lowpass filter (of more or less complexity) and then there was music.

This turned out to be problematic soundwise because of the high levels of high frequency noise of the same kind as found in old 1-bit DAC designs.

See below, the DSD interpretation of a sine-wave.
http://www.mother-of-tone.com/PCM%20...-bit_green.jpg

The funny solution to this dilemma was in decimating the DSD 1-bit stream to 16 or more bits PCM, and then playing through a PCM DAC chip, using multibit or at least multilevel delta-sigma technology (as in the Accuphase DC101). This way at least a decent level of playback quality was possible:
http://www.mother-of-tone.com/PCM%20...-bit_green.jpg

Although, with this decimation process, the complete point of DSD became completely obsolete.

As for transmittance, you can go for seperate coax wires, or use a single multi-wire computer cable and just run out one clock-line and all data-lines (6 x data for 6 channels). Just grab the signals from the DSD converter (i.e. DSD 1702 / 1791, etc...).

This would be the basic DSD interface.

As mentioned in earlier posts, any other interface between SACD-players and receivers is not for public access, as music industry is utterly afraid that anybody would have the rather stupid idea of copying low-resolution DSD recordings.

Charles

[Bricolo]

Isn't the digital out of SACD players muted during a SACD playack? (for copyright reasons)