Jim
You are more than welcome, hate to see people struggle especially when have been there too many times to count myself.
However just one more thing that may work for you.
This is actually how I run my OPPO as I really only use it for movies, I play sacd most of time on the old pioneer on my second system.
So my OPPO is connected to my tv by hdmi and set to output sacd over hdmi. Then I take a toslink digital out from the tv back to my dac where I now have sacd sound from the sacd layer on the disc.
Sounds klutzy but it works and the sq is actually pretty good although I am sure somebody will come along and poopoo the method!
Now I think you said you had success with playing sacd layer over hdmi so if your tv has a digital output you may be able to do the same as I do.
Good luck!
You are more than welcome, hate to see people struggle especially when have been there too many times to count myself.
However just one more thing that may work for you.
This is actually how I run my OPPO as I really only use it for movies, I play sacd most of time on the old pioneer on my second system.
So my OPPO is connected to my tv by hdmi and set to output sacd over hdmi. Then I take a toslink digital out from the tv back to my dac where I now have sacd sound from the sacd layer on the disc.
Sounds klutzy but it works and the sq is actually pretty good although I am sure somebody will come along and poopoo the method!
Now I think you said you had success with playing sacd layer over hdmi so if your tv has a digital output you may be able to do the same as I do.
Good luck!