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Can SACD's be played in ony 2 channel format

I have a Denon 2910 that Im using now as a CD player (sort term only). I only have 2 SACD's so this is not that big of deal,but if I understand the technology correctly the SACD's are recorded at a higher resolution than regualr CD's. After reading the instruction manual I'm still not perfectly clear on wether or not if I play a SACD it will output the 2channel info as the same as the equivalent CD source.
last_lemming
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The 2 channel SACD tracks are DSD- Direct Stream Digital. It is a one bit datastream at something like 3 MHz sampling rate. It is completely different from PCM which can be 16 bit or 24 bit, but I believe the theoretical resolution is something like 20 bit (which is all you need anyway since current technology does not have the signal to noise ratio to support a 24 bit signal).

Mark
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As far as I know all SACD's have a stereo layer. Pressing the "Super Audio CD Setup" button will cycle between the CD layer, the stereo SACD tracks, and the multichannel SACD tracks. You can also go into setup and select the default layer for SACDs.

Mark
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kr4
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The above posters are generally correct. There are exceptions, though.

Kal
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I would have thought SACD's would sound better than traditional 16 bit record players/recordngs, but according to the this particualr fellow it doesn't seem so. Except below 10k.

What are your thoughts.
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they just don't understand what's really important when it comes to audio resolution but at least their hearing is 100% OK.

see the below quote from the article:

"The SACD recordings from Jan-Erik Persson at Opus3 are far superior to everything released from DVD-A."
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