Dreadhead

Yup. That's the point. Make it work with any DAC. If people are interested I guess I could give doing building a method for doing this to a FLAC encoder. I'm thinking of making my method more general anyway. I also want to make the temporary file naming scheme time based so I can have more than one file going through HDCD decoding at a time safely with no risk of one overwriting the other. The only issue is finding the all the various command line options EAC uses by default.

I could easily do it for other formats but I use WMA so I did it for that.

I wrote a batch file that runs the conversion and writes the stderr to a text file, it then parses the text file to see if it found HDCD (if it didn't it just crashes or writes an identical file). If it did find it it copies it back to the input location and moves on to the compression if not then it deletes the file. One issue right now is that I put it in the WMA compressor VBScript file to call the batch file. In the end it works rather well.

If you want your DSD in PCM form just buy an HDFury2 (I have one and it converts the DSD to PCM and goes to my DAC just fine) or this: HDMI 3 in 1 Converter Switcher DVI YPbPr RGB HDMI v 1.3 + SPDIF L/F Audio For the DSD all the way people I think you guys are S.O.L. In the end DSD is PCM and PCM is DSD just different sampling rates and bit depths. That said delta sigma DACS are essentially the same as DSD dacs but they do have some different filters and noise shaping fun.

because I made a choice years ago and that's where I ended up. If you want a test file though I can arrange for WAVs or Flac I just would need to modify some stuff.

Well after some futzing I have modified Exact Audio Copy to check to see if a file has HDCD Data and if it does use this: HDCD Software Decoder [Archive] - Doom9's Forum or: Index of /~cjk32/hdcd to convert it to a 24 bit file and then encode to a lossless WMA at with 24 bits. The files aren't much bigger than the 16 bit files because most of the extra bits are zeros anyway. Pretty cool Can I hear the difference? haven't tried yet but I certainly like knowing that I can get everything out of the HDCDs. Only problem now is that I will have to go through and re-rip my HDCDs.

Hell yeah!

purty I don't have any but still purty

I was thinking a straw one was the only thing that would do. : http://www.brooksbrothers.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=1&Section_Id=326&Product_Code=473F&Parent_Id=228&CMP=AFC-NU4859254343 No way in hell I'd pay that much though.

Where? I must .... have .... seersucker headphones!

I'll get my wife to take one on Sunday. I wear a suit or blazer and slacks to work every workday and JosABank had it on sale for $99 so I figured what the heck (of course I had to spend at least $60 on tailoring but life goes on) Or I could wear it to CanJam?

I forgot one: Earlier this week I got my first seersucker suit Sweet!

I would go and see what it supports as far as file type etc. I looked at the receiver but with no balanced it's of little use to me. I've decided against DSD anyway. After my little DAC showdown next week I will likely be done DAC shopping for the foreseeable future.

especially really hairy ones

or me

Booked Hopstretch you have a roomate

Would you trust Dusty?

Yay, you are my second disciple.... Vlad was first

But I need to proselytize about the DEQ I'll write the trip off to my DEQ Church you know....

nice... I'm still invited to share your room though right? I warn you I'm "punny" at times.

Ok I have permission and a place to sleep.... now I just need to think about if I am really screwing myself at work. I found a way to come in late Friday and then back out on Sunday at noon for an extra 20 bucks though it isn't non-stop. I now have to wonder what I can fit in a roll aboard.... DAC, DEQ + 650s? Is the hotel accepting shipped in boxes? That may be the best way to get some crap out there.

bluetooth or wifi?

Friday is a must work so I'd arrive around noon on Sat if I decided to do it. There is a direct from DCA to LAX. Can't beat that. Hopstretch thanks for the offer. I just might take you up on it.

Ok well my wife seems reasonably open to the idea but does think I'm nuts to spend 10 hours flying and $310 for a round trip lasting 24 hrs