Do SACD player start up slower

The Trivista and the SCD-XA-777ES read an SACD as fast as a redbook disk.

My Sony DVPNS900 reads them within 10s-the length of the high end Sonys to read discs always put me off even considering buying them...no patience me

The Philips SACD 1000 also takes measurably longer to read a disc. I think that the combo units do this as they have to differentiate between whether it is a cd, dvd or sacd. If it senses that the disc is an SACD, it has to decode whether they are two channel or multi-channel. If it senses that it is a dvd, it has to tell what type of signal processing to apply to properly decript it.

One would think that the designers / engineers would have taken a progressive approach to sensing i.e. the machine would start off by looking for the simplest format and then proceeding from there. If it sensed the simplest format, which is CD, it would boot up and play from there. I have the feeling that the "turtle-like" machines are running through ALL of the formats and then selecting the most appropriate one and that is what takes so long. Sean
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Pioneer dv45A takes 5 to 10 seconds. I am more annoyed by the fact that with some discs (not all) it halts after it displays the type of disc, and I have to hit the PLAY button a second time to make things happen.

I did not actually time it.. so maybe I'm off. This was with the Shanling T200 that I was looking at in one of the local shops. It also did just as described above and stoped once it read the content so you had to wait while the read process was going on. The waiting is what made it seem like a long time. This was with an SACD..I'll have to try it for redbook. it actually uses the Sony KHM-2334AAA drive.