Topic: DAC and copyright protection

[ProtegeManiac]

I just noticed some of my cd's (mostly from Sony) have a notice on the back that says it will only output at 96khz sampling rate if i use the digital outputs, same thing while I was browsing for cheap cd transports. HDD source units are out of the question too since I cant even rip the same CDs to my PC because of hte same protection software.

does this mean I'm better off investing on a cd player? I really want to try out having a custom non-OS dac w/ tube analog output made, or at least an MF dac, however this got me into thinking that the sound quality would be compromised anyway.

[av_phile1]

CD is only 44.1khz sampling rate and any PC with even freeware rippers can rip the CD data out to your hard drive.  Copyright protection is useless on CD data.  You can always try out non oversampling DACS using the digital connection between CD player and the outboard DAC.