Are You Happy With 2 Channel SACD?

I have a multi-channel SACD player. I bought it because EMM Labs released their multi-channel players first and I wanted mine sooner rather than later.
But, I listen to it in two-channel. I have 100+ SACD's and I listen to them all
in two channel whether they have a multi-channel layer, or not. I am as happy as a clam with SACD in two channel. IMO, two channels are enough to experience the difference between redbook and SACD. I listen to SACD's for days in a row. When I throw on a redbook CD, even super duper remasters, I can tell something is missing compared to SACD and I'm eager to get back to my SACD's. If I were buying today and I had my choice between the two-channel Emm Labs player and the multi-channel, I'd go with the two-channel.

>>digital output doesn't work for sacd<<

That's no longer true. There *are* now SACD players and Universal Players which out output both DVD-A and SACD in digital. In the coming months,
you will see a bunch of high rez players on the market with digital outputs
and receivers are coming out with Digital Inputs to receive High Rez signals
in digital. The Emm Labs SACD player has a digital output. The Pioneer
DV-59 AVi also has a digital output, which synchs up with their receivers,
the TXi's, which have the corresponding input. And more like this are on the horizon. It's happening, folks.

I've never seen a SACD that didn't have a two-channel layer.

I think part of the problem is that it takes awhile for the SACD player to break in, but a lot of the time, when people buy a CD/SACD player, they don't have any SACD's to play, so they buy one or two, A/B the SACD layer against the CD track, have a hard time telling the difference, and give up. If you listen to SACD's for awhile, let your player break in, then go back to redbook CD's, I would bet you'll miss the air, the natural-ness of the detail, the lack of digital glare, the increased dynamic range, and the ambient information of the SACD. CD will sound slightly compressed after you get used to SACD. They *do* need to open the floodgates on SACD releases, though -- that would help.

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