IS there such an animal?

Echo in here

HDCD (High Definition Compatible Digital ) is a proprietary audio encode-decode process that was a Microsoft developed product but discontinued way back in 2005. HDCD needed a bespoke decoding chip inside the CD player, in order to take advantage of the encoded information.

The  SACD (“Super Audio CD”) format was introduced in 1999 and developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics and intended to be the successor to the CD format. It was on its downward slope already by 2007.

it’s a binary decision tree choice ….. not both.

they had their short fleeting time in the sun. I’ve had both, and ignoring the multi-channel option, as technology continues to improve, my “vanilla” high-end redbook CD player smokes them both in audio 2-channel performance.

secretaryguy has a short memory......

Most, if not all, Oppo players play SACD as well as HDCD. Just checked, my EVS modified Oppo DV-970HD plays both. A quick check of an old Amazon listing shows that the DVP-103 also list SACD and HDCD as formats that it supports.

Never really got a satisfactory answer the 1st time around. I don't want something with all the video circuits.

I will assume there is no such thing.