Reference disc player...UDP 205 or Marantz?

I am considering purchase of UDP-205, do not have it yet, this will be strictly for SACD playback in two channel stereo mode using players RCA analog outputs, it will not for conventional CD's as I have a good CD player.
I have one question for those who are familiar with this player, I spent a good deal of time reading the on line owners manual where it states that for stereo the player downmixes multi channel layer, not a good idea. Is there a way to program the player to read the hi-rez stereo layer of SACD rather than down mix the MC?
Dumb question, but I am confused, I would not touch UDP-205 if it only down mixes the multi channel layer of SACD for stereo playback. 

Thanks for the clarification.

So what I am hearing you say is that UDP-205 can in fact be set up to play the stereo hi-rez layer of typical SACD which has three layers, CD, stereo SACD and MC.

What I am still not clear but will try to find out, where in the owners manual one finds direction of how to setup the player so that it would play the stereo SACD layer.

Don’t laugh, I am learning and thanks again.

Thanks for your comments;

Yesterday I contacted OPPO Customer Service and received the following reply;

“Under playback setup you will change SACD Priority from Multi Channel to Stereo. The player will then playback the Stereo layer or a SACD”.

I also checked the layout of remote control, there are 35 buttons listed but I do not see any button for selecting the SACD Stereo layer on the remote.

So far so good, the only remaining question is PCM/DSD. On page 60 this is discussed but the choices listed are for HDMI output, in my case I do not want to mess with HDMI but instead use analog two channel RCA outputs.

Thanks again,

I am slowly getting used to this players setup routines, I am almost there.

I listen primarily to classical, I have good many DSD’s and also an equal number of PCM SACD’s. Once I setup for DSD I am assuming that the player’s front display will indicate DSD just to be certain.

If the next SACD to be played happens to be PCM will the player automatically recognize the format or I need to change the DSD to PCM?

And yes, the remote control has a button, #13-AUDIO-Change Audio Language or Channel.

On this I am not confused.

Yes, every SACD has a standard resolution CD layer, I am not talking about this CD layer, this allows an SACD to be played on standard CD players.

Certain classical labels offer SACD’s with their Hi-Rez stereo layer in PCM, BIS Records is one such label.

Channel Classics, another state of art label, offers all their SACD’s in DSD, again we are talking about the Hi-Rez stereo layer.