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SACD Player/Transport Choices

I am planning to acquire a McIntosh MCT500 to go with my C53 (proprietary MCT connection).  But I am wondering if there are other good SACD transport choices that will send a true DSD stream to an external DAC on a non-proprietary basis, either through USB or I2S.  I’m trying to research this, but it’s difficult to find definitive answers regarding the actual digital stream from SACD - often I discover that the stream is converted to PCM.  I do know PSAudio has a scheme similar to McIntosh.

I realize simply purchasing DSD and streaming from an SSD is probably more practical these days.  But I am sort of fixated on a physical disc player.  Budget-wise, most interested in transports around or below that of the MCT500 (~$5K). Thanks for your thoughts and advice.

mattsca

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Shingling has recently released Onix Zenith XST20 SACD transport for $2299. I believe, it does the following:

 

  • TOSLINK CD PCM 44.1kHz // SACD: DSD64 DoP or D2P
  • Coaxial CD PCM 44.1kHz // SACD: DSD64 DoP or D2P
  • BNC CD PCM 44.1kHz // SACD: DSD64 DoP or D2P
  • AES/EBU CD PCM 44.1kHz // SACD: DSD64 DoP or D2P
  • I2S CD: PCM 44.1kHz // SACD: DSD64 Native
  • USB CD: PCM 44.1kHz // SACD not supported

 

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