rlsammie
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| SACD Players @wturkey Hi.. I received MCT500 yesterday and I spent some time listening to my old CD's and newly acquired SACDs and all I can cay is that I am beyond impressed. Even the old CDS sound so much better than FLAC and Streaming. The integration bet... | |
| SACD Players @mahler123 Hi, The proprietary connection is called MCT. The McIntosh MCT500 CD/SACD player comes with the DIN cable which you plug into the MCT port on both ends. It looks something like this: https://mww.serial-cable.com/din-cable/8-pin-di... | |
| SACD Players @upstateaudiophile I am really happy to know, I am also glad that I went with the MCT500. It simplifies things with my setup and leaves some extra money on my account. I am super excited to hook it up and spend some time with it over the weekend. | |
| SACD Players @richardbrand :) It's all good. My surround system is a very basic Dolby Atmos Yamaha receiver. Thank you for the suggestions. I will definitely check them out. | |
| SACD Players @richardbrand I am with you. I also have a Sony Blue-ray player connected to my home theater system that supports DSD multilayer. With the HDMI out from the Blue-ray player I am able to enjoy multichannel music. However, my home theater system f... | |
| SACD Players @curiousjim Agreed and It's the same with MCT500 transport. They key here is that both the transport and DAC needs to be from the same manufacturer. | |
| SACD Players Thank you everyone for your feedback and advice. Since I already own and love the MA5300 integrated amp, I have opted to stay within the Mcintosh ecosystem. I ended up purchasing a preowned MCT500. This is the easiest and the most straight forwar... | |
| SACD Players Thank you for all the feedback, ideas and suggestions. I will stick with the McIntosh ecosystem and go with a preowned MCT500. It's the quickest and easiest was for me to extract raw DSD layer from SACD to my Amp. I plan on keeping my MA5300 and i... | |
| SACD Players Thank you for responding. I will go over to PS Audio forum and post this. Esoteric is out of my budget :) Shanling won't send the DSD layer to the DAC |