This decoder sounds very good.
Detail of high frequencies and transparency of the sound is the best of decoders I've heard sofar and is comparable with the original SACD.
Compared with the SACD, it's a bit missing the power in the lowest frequencies (which gives weight to the sound). Lower frequencies are also a little less defined.
As a whole this decoder is very good. If the low frequencies have just that more power and are better defined, then this decoder equals the original SACD.
I've just started ripping and tagging my SACDs, and noticed a few quirks when tagging DSF files this morning.
When I create some of the tags, they appear to be mapping differently to other file formats, and show up as something else in other programs like MP3Tag and JRMC.
The ones I have noticed so far are:
Created Tag --> Mapped tag
Source - Media Type
Style - ContentGroup
Label - Publisher
If I create the tag in MP3Tag as say 'Source', it shows up as 'Source' in dbPoweramp.
If I create 'Label' in MP3tag after creating it in dbpoweramp first, dbp shows multiple values against 'Label' (so it is treating Label and Publisher as one)
The behaviour doesn't match my experience with flac, so suspect something is wrong somewhere
You can test with mp3 and those tag values please.
MP3 results were the same as for DSF.
For completeness I also did Flac (which I what I normally use), and the results were different:
Created Tag --> Mapped tag
Source - Source
Style - Style
Label - Label
Does this decoder work with db v16.x and windows 10? I installed it, the dll is in the decoder folder, but it doesn't show up in the Control Center (Audio Codecs) and there are no db options when I right-click a .dsf file.
You must have the 32 bit version installed, did you force the 32 bit version of dBpoweramp to install?
I simply ran the updater and accepted all of the defaults. Originally I installed R14 (or older) and have probably run updates ever since. The Control Center shows that the 64-bit dBpoweramp is installed:
When I run "dBpoweramp-Codec-DSD-SACD.exe", the Windows 10 UAC prompts me to allow "21C4.tmp-dBpoweramp-Codec-DSD-SACD-32bit.exe" to run. Is the "32bit" a clue?
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