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HDCD

Here's a (probably) dumb question. Does anyone make a player that plays SACD AND decodes HDCD? 
I guess HDCD failed in the marletplace. Too bad. The few I have actually sound better...even when played on an old Sony boy ray player...than many of my SACDs played on my good player. I do have an older NAD cd player that decodes HDCD in a second system but I don't can't move it into the main system every time i want to hear n HDCD. Having 1 player to do both would be ideal.

secretguy
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georgehifi
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The last Pacific Microsonic Devices PMD200 hdcd chips weren’t cheap https://www.widescreenreview.com/news_detail.php?id=2657
https://www.stereophile.com/news/10674/index.html
then Delta Sigma (bitstream) took over and and killed production.
But now that R2R is coming back strong "maybe" they’ll make a comeback?? Does anyone know if Pacific Microsonic Devices are still around?

Cheers George
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mahler123
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The RR discs seem to play on my Universal Players (Oppo and Pioneer), and also on my Melco Ripper/Transport.
unsound
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^I believe all but the last generation of Oppo’s were capable of HDCD decoding. HDCD’s will play on standard CD players, but without the benefit of the HDCD decoding.
I’m a fan of HDCD. Some of my best sounding discs are RR HDCD’s.
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kr4
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JRiver will handle both.  Just rip the discs to files..................
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