SACD Player/Transport Choices

There's also the Playback Designs MPT-8 Dream Transport. The perfect name for something that starts at €23,990. 

All the best,
Nonoise

PSAudio have just announced a new SACD transport at AXPONA for I believe $8,500 and limited to 200 units. Personally I use a PSAudio PerfectWave for SACD playback via I2S into a Denafrips Venus 15th DAC for native DSD playback and that works superbly. Maybe a 2nd hand PSAudio is the way to go? The Music Room have 2 for sale right now Mark 1 $1,300 Mark 2 $3,500.

I just received the new Onix XST20 mentioned in a post by @milpai.  I purchased from the North American Distributor Forte Distribution located in Montreal Canada.  I ordered online on Tuesday 4/08 and it was shipped the next day 4/09 via FedEx from their Seattle Distribution Warehouse.  I received  it in two days on 4/11.  Their listed price is $2399 for the USA but they applied a 10% discount for a first time Shanling purchase which brought the price down to $2159 shipped.  This is an impressive piece of gear.  Excellent build quality and aesthetics.  The user interface is top notch and very intuitive.  I love the touch screen and functionality.  Plays SACD, CD & MQA.  The top loading transport is smooth and quiet.  Sound quality is excellent from all outputs which include i2s, USB, AES/EBU, Coax, BNC & Optical.  I'm hearing best sound playing SACD's via i2s which is native DSD.  I tried the Onix paired with my Denafrips Terminator, Laiv Harmony & my APL HiFi tube dac.  The Onix also performed favorably when compared to my $19K Esoteric Transport.  The remote is a bit confusing at first because it has lots of buttons that don't apply to the transport.  Onix has several future products coming up in this series that will share the same remote.  I would prefer having a simple dedicated uncluttered remote with just the buttons needed to operate the transport.  It's nice to have this new purchase option for a high quality reasonably priced SACD/CD transport.  The Onix comes with a good quick start guide but no owners manual. I couldn't find an online manual.  There's a menu icon on the touch screen that opens a setup menu of user options & settings.  This is where an owners manual would be handy as the quick start guide only addresses a few of the many settings.  I emailed Forte last night with some menu option questions and they responded today with detailed answers and suggestions.  It's reassuring to know there's good support available. 

@dinov 

I am not aware of any other SACD transports, just players. It’s the proprietary nature of SACD that make a transport difficult to make without some sort of special connection like McIntosh provides

I earlier gave two examples transports that natively spin SACD disks , one a cheap Sony, the other a Reavon.  Both use one of the most widely standards for high speed digital communication, HDMI.

Reavon shares its SOC (System On a Chip) with Oppo and newer players