Blu ray and SACD

Kal,

Which of your "music in the round" columns do you recommend to learn about a) how best to utilize blu ray players with high end audio systems; and b) comparison of the audio performance of various blu ray players? Thanks.

Those are running topics. The column is not a tutorial.

Kal

BTW, several new universal players were announced/shown at CEDIA to join those already noted.

Kal

Just to add to the Play Station 3 comments. Only the older 60 Gig and older 80 Gig PS3 play SACD. I don't believe the newer 80 Gig, 40 Gig or the 120 Gig do. I have the older 80 Gig and it works great, plus like Buconero117 said, software update is great and it plays SACD and MP3 over a network as well as videos over a network. My favorite option on my PS3 80 Gig is the ability to play HiDef video. I have a Canon HiDef camcorder that records to SD memory cards. I pop them into the PS3 card reader and get up to 1080P video on my plasma.

"I am in the process of purchasing a Blu ray player and I would like to know whether any Blu ray player will play SACD in its true format as it was meant to be played (not just because it is compatible)."

from what I know the two new SACD/BD players from Marantz UD9004 and UD8004 play SACD natively.

PS Does anybody know any Blu-ray player that will play Blu-ray discs without converting 24bit/48kHz do delta-sigma?