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I skimmed through several websites which offered DSD downloads. Unfortunately I didn't find anything that I would listen to more than once. I also didn't find anything in the primary musical genres I regularly listen to. In spite of the much better technical specs of dsd than red book audio...

I only ever seen external dac devices which take the digital data output from a cd player. Somebody I knew had one and brought it over to my home one time, and connected it to my cd player's digital output. (I couldn't tell the difference compared to the analog line-out from the cd player...

Would this dac be in the form of a computer soundcard, or a separate external independent dac device connected with a usb cable (or some other generic cable) ?

For a software player which can play DSD files, do they just convert the DSD data into a PCM data stream ?

Is there are reason for this, beside low market demand? For example, are the patent holders of DSD suppressing it from many third party hardware companies?

In a hypothetical bizarro-world where sacd/dvd-audio (or bluray-audio for that matter) became ubiquitous and entirely replaced the red book audio cd, most likely then-recent/current new albums would have still sounded like garbage with the "loudness wars" debauchery.

Back in the day, I would have been willing to "re-buy" my entire music collection on sacd (or dvd-audio). Though unfortunately hardly anything was released on sacd/dvd-audio that would interest me at all. Not even really old catalog stuff.

If I had a large sacd collection, I would certainly be buying up several old ps3 consoles with the firmware version that can do the ps3 hack that reads sacd discs directly. Though with that being said, there were not too many titles of interest to me which was released on sacd. (Nor dvd-audio...

(On a really sordid offtopic tangent). The only reason I would buy such a device ^ like this, would be to hack the hardware such that one could extract an unmolested DSD stream from sacd discs without having to use the PS3 jailbreak. :)