HDCD CDs and transcoding

[lyapounov]

(12-07-2019 02:11)GreenMtnGringo Wrote:  I am back to ripping HDCDs to 24-bit FLAC files with dBpoweramp. In my system, the ffmpeg HDCD decoder seems to decrease the volume of even non-HDCD FLAC rips, and rather dramatically so.

Forgive my naive question, but which hardware are you using for ripping HDCD ?

I had the feeling that standard cd player which you connect to a computer can only read the standard CD layer of a disk, and no other.

I am lucky to own a oppo, therefore I can now rip my sacd. But I have a DSD album, and I don't know how to extract the dsd file. So I thought same with a HDCD ?