Sony's high-end SCD-XA5400ES SACD player eyes-on at CEDIA

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Ubertrout @ Sep 5th 2008 10:28AM

Wait...so they didn't put 7.1 Analog outputs on it? What's the point of paying top dollar for a SACD player if you're just going to use it as a transport for the DSD over HDMI - the Oppo 980H can do that fine for 1/10 of the price.

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Erwos @ Sep 5th 2008 11:55AM

Alas, there aren't so many receivers that can actually play DSD over HDMI...

That is to say, if you can afford the gear to do DSD over HDMI (and care about it), you can afford this. Probably.

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Ubertrout @ Sep 5th 2008 1:46PM

I know there aren't many HDMI 1.2 receivers. My point was that you can get a cheaper device to send out the DSD signal over HDMI - it's only worth the extra money for high-quality analog outputs. Since there's no surround analog outputs, you're really just getting a really good CD player that can play SACDs in surround with an HDMI 1.2 receiver.

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