It's unfortunately impossible due to licensing issues. Only workaround is to (illegally) hack an old PS3 or certain generation of Oppo or Sony blu-ray players.
What would you like to see on new Innuos products?
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All the restrictions on SACDs (Ripping, playing the DSD layer other than through very limited channels,...) made them unfortunately a poor proposition. Much better nowadays to buy DSD files from the stores that sell them.
In fact, Qobuz will now soon (if they dont already) sell DSD content in their online store.
Yes, but a very limited selection. If Qobuz have been able to license the use of SACD (they must have been able to legally rip the data) is there hope that others like Innuos could do the same ?
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It's not a license of DSD rather than SACD - SACD was just a physical means of distribution so Qobuz will not have 'ripped' from these, they presumably sourced directly from the original record labels with an agreement to digitally redistribute through streams/downloads. Even this is quite difficult to achieve, but it's generally good news for the market as this is dramatically more convenient and versatile than SACD. Given the hyper-specialised nature of DSD, I'm not sure if we'll see many vendors for it beyond NativeDSD and Qobuz.
I’d be glad to pay an extra subscription to Qobuz for DSD streaming, but to be honest the current catalogue is so small… in particular for rock albums.
Unfortunately the availability of DSD recordings is very limited and unlikely to increase much. Changing to a Qobuz Sublime subscription should get you a reasonable discount for DSD downloads.