My Musical Fidelity kW SACD did not allow you to select sacd or redbook layers-no menus, no buttons. The default was to read SCAD first (which was a problem for another post). My Esoteric X03SE has an area button on the remote for selecting between 2 channel sacd, multi channel sacd or redbook. My Rotel RDV 1080 (DVDA player) only outputs DVDA through the analogue RCA output jacks - believe that is the only way any of the DVDA players can (if I understood that part of your question). I had an Ayer in my system for a test drive and it was CD/SACD/DVDA and I only have a 2 channel music room and it did play the DVDA disc into two channel, through the analogue outs. I believe it downsampled the multi channels into stereo. Didn't dound too bad but I only have 2 DVDA discs so I didn't spend much time with that.
SA-CD/DVD-A question?
OK - so i finally buy a new CD player ( in this case a Pioneer DV-48AV Elite) .This is to feed my EAD -DSP Pro- music only system.Reason for this particular purchase was that it will play redbook CD's ,SA-CDs and DVD-Audio. Went to play a SA-CD dual layer - Pioneer switches to SA CD ( which of course it won't output thru the digi out jacks ). There does not apear to be a way to overide this auto selection and make it play the redbook CD layer? Is this true for all multi-format players or do some other manufactorers offer a product that allows you to tell the player which layer to play? Second question - but do most DVD-Audios come out ogf the digi jacks as redbook CD sampling/playback signals - in other words - can I get any digi signal out of this or any other player via digi jacks when playing DVD-Audios?