Playing SACD on a Non-SACD Player

Rwwear,

Not true at all.

The DSD encoded on an SACD disc is like a foreign language
to your redbook machine. It doesn't understand it AT ALL!!

The redbook machine can't read a single layer SACD disc at
all. The redbook player can only read the redbook layer on
a hybrid disc, which is written in a language it understands.

Dr. Gregory Greenman
Physicist

Tvad,

Exactly, Rwwear's post was misleading in that it implied that
one could play an SACD disc in a redbook player.

A better phrasing would be that the redbook layer of a hybrid
SACD/redbook disc benefits from the fact that the recording
was originally mastered in DSD and downconverted to redbook.

Dr. Gregory Greenman
Physicist