SACD Player with hi-rez digital input

I would seriously look at the Playback Designs MPS-5 over the Esoteric. Just a personal observation of the two of course.

Technically it's not possible to pass native 24/192 through 1 rca input or 1 toslink input.

"Technically it's not possible to pass native 24/192 through 1 rca input or 1 toslink input "

Hello Kops - yes, I am familiar with this statement. Only AES or even two ARS can trasfer 192/24. I am not engineer and thus I am unable to argue on merit.

However, I read thi statement many years ago, and since it was not written in bible and in stone and both coaxial and fiber optic may have very wide bandwidth I see no inherent reason why clever engineering and/or change in standards cannot absoultely make it possible.

For support of the above (support is not prove its just that "support" - I advise you to look into Sound Sceince Web Site. Very cleaver engineer builds music servers there (Music Vault). One of these servers "Music Vault 24-192" - can (and you can infer it from its title too) pass 24/192 data via its coaxial output. This one I am planning to use together with DAC part of SACD Player if and then I will find one I like, and .....can afford

Thank you
Rafael
P.S I hope I am right in my optimism.

Kops, would you care to elaborate on why that is not possible?

My friend Mark (Hunter-1) cannot log-in here. However, he spoke with Esoteric Technical rep, Tim and indeed I was wrong. SA-50 can accept up to 192 kHz and 24 (or 32?) bits via its coaxial and optical (Toslink) S/PDIF digital interconnects.

Great!

Rafael