Do SACD player start up slower

Many of the sacd drives do take some time to read the toc and recognize if the disc is a cd or sacd... Many of the newer models are much faster than the 30-45 seconds... sounds like the Sony scd1/777es transport that was so slow. I had a Sony 9000es which was more like 10-15 seconds.

The Trivista and the SCD-XA-777ES read an SACD as fast as a redbook disk.

My Sony DVPNS900 reads them within 10s-the length of the high end Sonys to read discs always put me off even considering buying them...no patience me

The Philips SACD 1000 also takes measurably longer to read a disc. I think that the combo units do this as they have to differentiate between whether it is a cd, dvd or sacd. If it senses that the disc is an SACD, it has to decode whether they are two channel or multi-channel. If it senses that it is a dvd, it has to tell what type of signal processing to apply to properly decript it.

One would think that the designers / engineers would have taken a progressive approach to sensing i.e. the machine would start off by looking for the simplest format and then proceeding from there. If it sensed the simplest format, which is CD, it would boot up and play from there. I have the feeling that the "turtle-like" machines are running through ALL of the formats and then selecting the most appropriate one and that is what takes so long. Sean
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