Bmpnyc - the MC-1 does digitize everything passing through it, so you do lose a lot of the advantage of a high-end analog source. I believe I read somewhere if you have analog in and feed it to the Zone2 output it stays completely analog, but that may not be true and, even if it is, is convuluted enough to not be particularly worthwhile. -Kirk
sacd help please
I admit to being quite confused on what type of equipment can fully take advantage of sacd, both two and multi channel. Of course, Sony is particularly useless when it comes to explaining what equipment is compatible with what other equipment. I currently have a Lexicon MC1, and old sony es theater receiver and a Parasound 2500 processor. I do not know whether any of the sacd players or changers, stereo or multi will work with any of them or what I need to have for a processor to work with sacd. All comments are welcome.