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Also, if you are using you $200 Sony DVD/SACD players the quality of
the
electronics in the box kill all the sonic advantages of SACD.


Any demonstrated examples of this?
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Maybe he is right. The cheaper players converts DSD to PCM. I thought
it was discussed in this forum before. Whether the cheaper player
sounds cheap or different is one's opinion.

I thought the Sony players still use DSD al the way for SACD playback,
regardless of price. Only the other brands may convert DSD to PCM.
Here's a Sony player at $150 list:

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...DVD_DVDPlayers

Its SACD frequency specs look the same as the ES players, like this one:

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTE...sshowcase_sacd

Of course, I do not believe that you have to get an expensive player to
hear the difference between SACD and CD, since it appears that the
mastering is what gives those differences.