Considering a new SACD Player

The Sony SCD-1 was/ is a state of the art SACD player.

Not sure what the mods to it are exactly but not exactly surprised it can hold its head high even today.

As for state of the art SACD, I would not argue in favor of the 20+ year old Sony, impressive as that unit was.

State of the art today is probably ripping SACD files and playing them through a modern DAC that will accept the .dsf files.  Limited there only by the DAC choice.  Not familiar with quality of these, but perhaps a second choice is a Bryston/PS Audio type of device that will accept HDMI output from an SACD disk player.

What software do you use to create the .dsf files?

@yyzsantabarbara

If you're not familiar with ripping SACDs, do a search.  There's a lot of information out there.  Google is your friend.  To answer directly the needed software is from Sonore and is free.  But you need to know more than that.