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Sony's New SACD Player

I just read about Sony's new top-of-line SACD player in Twice magazine. It will have Firewire output for all channels. This will enable it to go directly into their new processor digitally. It will also have advanced copyright protection in addition to Watermarking. Other firewire enabled processors should follow.
rwwear
rwwear OP
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Here's the UK version with specs. Be sure to check out the amp. http://www.avland.co.uk/sony/scdxa9000/index.htm
darrylhifi
498 posts
 
Here's a dumb/smart {not sure which} question ? If you have a firewire out, connecting to your pre, than wont your pre
have to be able to decode DSD properly ?
rwwear OP
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Yes. Your processor must have the firewire input with SACD decoding otherwise, you will have to use the analog inputs for SACD. The 1394 DTCP digital connector has been adopted as the Scarlet Book spec for the SACD standard.
ears
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Hopefully, there will be some dacs to use the firewire with that cost far less than 10k, in the nex't year.
darrylhifi
498 posts
 
Yes thats my "be careful what you wish for" thought, because first you buy the player, than you have to upgrade your DAC, your talking a big piece of change !
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