Yes, quite a few… The Mofi ones are often worth finding and they still release on SACD… your problem now is finding a good spinner for them… I bought pre-owned…
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I’ve got a Sony Blu-ray player that plays them. I’ve Pink Floyd’s DSOTM, WYWH and Animals and about 6 Genesis ones. Need a good surround sound set up now but the girlfriend is a stumbling block 🤣 Any recommendations?
The SACD’s, of course, use DSD rather than PCM for the stream… and if you buy something just for the SACD then it might not play blu-ray as it might be too old… and I find many new multi disk spinners are dropping SACD capability… it’s a niche product now but some SACD’s are fantastic versions…
I did my research on a multi disk spinner and this was what was recommended for what I wanted. I’ve a soundbar that does Dolby surround, Dolby Atmos and PCM multi channel. It’s probably the best I’m going to get 🤣 it has tidal connect so can play direct hi-res stereo and Atmos tracks
Yes not that I’ve tried that yet. Got a few DVD-A and Blu Ray audio that have multichannel mixes on them but they don’t sound far to digital compared to a SACD if you know what I mean
I only have one dvd-a and it is 21 years now since it was released… I find SACD (dsd) sounds more analog than PCM does… you can get recordings of (say) classical music recorded directly in 1-bit to DsD.. like a digital tape… mofi take master tapes and make a DSD from them directly… then to sacd..
With the advent of streaming etc it’s a challenge building up a kit that spans across decades of changing tech… I still have my DAT player (albeit it needs a service)… and a cassette player…
Sounds great… Your blu-ray player will (i suspect) be converting the dsd sacd data to either pcm if you are digital out.. or to analog if you are feeding an amp directly… the old Sacd players did the DA conversion outputting an analog feed… they do not output dsd digital… they convert to pcm…
… and, at the dnd of the day, is all that matters… that it sounds great… happy listening… I like the hires stuff on the DSOTM blu-ray… I think the Floyd releases have been done pretty well… and sticking it on the blu-ray it does not feel like you have to buy a rip-off box set…
I don’t actually play them in surround, only stereo… snd I use an old Arcam FMj multi disk spinner so it’ll play most of the odd disks in different formats… HDCD, SACD, DVD-Audio etc… lovely player… hot it for about 15% of whst it’s original owner would have paid for it…
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