People are asking rapey prices for Oppos now. I Almost bought one when they were getting out of business. Should have.
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.
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.
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secretguy OPThe Oppo plays SACD as well, correct? A while back in Audiogon someone of note said they (Oppo) detect HDCD cd and turn a light on, but don’t have the Pacific Microsonic Devices PDM100 or PMD200 decoding chip in them to actually decode HDCD, this "could" be because all Oppo’s use Delta Sigma (bitstream) conversion?? Because if you look in that list of dac/players I posted and seach for PMD100 or PMD200 you only get dacs and players that use them that are R2R ladder dac chips not Delta Sigma. If your interested in getting one used, type in PMD100 or PMD200 in the search bar of this vast data base of players and dacs that used them. Cheers George |
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