Do SACD player start up slower

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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Pioneer dv45A takes 5 to 10 seconds. I am more annoyed by the fact that with some discs (not all) it halts after it displays the type of disc, and I have to hit the PLAY button a second time to make things happen.

I did not actually time it.. so maybe I'm off. This was with the Shanling T200 that I was looking at in one of the local shops. It also did just as described above and stoped once it read the content so you had to wait while the read process was going on. The waiting is what made it seem like a long time. This was with an SACD..I'll have to try it for redbook. it actually uses the Sony KHM-2334AAA drive.

What's 20-35 seconds longer to cue up a cd as long as the player is functioning properly? If it takes that long to hear the best possible sound, so be it with pleasure! My Marantz 8300 takes 10-20 seconds or so. I've spent much more than that on this thread! It sill beats the 20 seconds to 2 minutes prepping vinyl for play. Please all enjoy the music!