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SACD drive sources

With the passing of Oppo, it seems that the manufacture of SACD drives is disappearing. PS Audio has discontinued their current transport and the new transport this fall won’t support SACD (their drive was from Oppo. As someone who has a large SACD library I am concerned about the future of this format.

Other than Marantz and Esoteric, is there anyone currently building SACD drives? Also, they do not output DSD over HDMI.

Sony appears to be out. Pioneer and Yamaha still have machines with HDMI output for DSD. But who makes their drives? 

Any way to know where drives are sourced from?
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mahler123
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Smetzger

I also have the Bryston DAC3 and enjoy listening to the DSD of my classical SACDs outputted from my Oppo 105 and my my Sony 5400 ES over HDMI.  If either of those players die I will probably buy a Sony Universal to use as a transport 
hickory_r
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richdirector:  +1 on the Arcam
larryi
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The US Luxman distributor I spoke to said that the transport is their own design and build and not something outsourced.  I heard their top of the line player in an all-Luxman electronics system and the sound was quite good.  
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