Considering a new SACD Player

As for state of the art SACD, I would not argue in favor of the 20+ year old Sony, impressive as that unit was.

State of the art today is probably ripping SACD files and playing them through a modern DAC that will accept the .dsf files.  Limited there only by the DAC choice.  Not familiar with quality of these, but perhaps a second choice is a Bryston/PS Audio type of device that will accept HDMI output from an SACD disk player.

@yyzsantabarbara

If you're not familiar with ripping SACDs, do a search.  There's a lot of information out there.  Google is your friend.  To answer directly the needed software is from Sonore and is free.  But you need to know more than that.