Anyone using a Blu-Ray player as a transport?

I could easily be wrong about this, but I am not aware of any Blu-Ray players that will provide upsampled data at their digital audio outputs.

They typically do have downsampling capability, to provide compatibility with dacs that cannot handle 96 or 192kHz sample rates.

Regards,
-- Al

Cmalak, I am under the impression that the Blu-Ray will
upsample to essentially SACD with Redbook CD's and that it will provide upsampled data at the digital audio outputs. I could be wrong on this, hense the questions. Also I am under the impression that the Blu-Ray drive is able to read the data at a quicker rate than my Wadia. Again, not sure if this is correct but one of my audio friends is of the impression that a DVD drive operates at a higher read rate than his CD dedicated transport and that a Blu-Ray will operate at a higher rate still.
I am contemplating adding the Blu-Ray player as a front end to my Boulder to replace the Wadia.
However, I'm not sure if this would be a downgrade or not.

It would be a downgrade.

Knownothing, I don't think it really matters in that system if you know what I mean.

Jane -- I did some further checking, which seems to confirm my earlier post.

On page 17 (pdf page 20) of the manual for Marantz' $6000 UD9004 Blu-Ray/SACD player: "SACD's DSD signal cannot be output. Also, during CD layer playback, 44.1kHz/16-bit Linear PCM is output."

On page 57 (pdf page 63) of the manual for the Oppo BDP-83: "The player does not up-sample audio to higher sample rates."

This manual for a Philips player mentions down-sampling on page 36, but there is no mention anywhere of upsampling.

Re faster reading of cd's in Blu-Ray players, even if the disks were read faster internally, I don't think that would be advantageous in any way if the output data rate is the same. And if the implementation is not good, faster reading could conceivably increase the rate of uncorrectable errors.

Hope that helps,
-- Al