"Matt Timmermans" wrote in message
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"Randy Yates" wrote in message
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Matt Timmermans wrote:
Wouldn't that be nice... you could just send it through a saturating
power
amp and a passive filter to the speaker.

Seriously, Matt, you act like this is a silly question. Why would it be?
Isn't
that kinda the idea of SACD - let the latest technology decide what's
the
best
way to downconvert the delta sigma modulator output? Why hogtie the
converter
to the transport? Oh, yeah! I get it - we get to sell more players that
way...


I didn't mean it as a silly question. It seems perfectly reasonable to me,
and I find it really annoying that SACD players wouldn't provide a simple
digital stream to make it easy.

What kind of digital stream are you looking for? If your receiver doesn't
have the ability to decode a DSD bitstream then you will have to have some
additional converter to convert from DSD to PCM which is what most of the
receivers out there deal with for digital. The higher end Denons have actual
DSD converters in them.