SACD

A major pitfall with SACDs since they can be so much more revealing with much deeper noise floors is the rest of the system.


Last night I played Moody Blues, Blood Sweat and Tears and Elton John Madman Across the Water (I have Gaucho but it's DVD-A). Lots more to play before going back to red book


My system is simple; Oppo 105 with DIY eBay aftermarket Linear Power Module, Rhodium IEC with heavy gauge pure silver wire to the LPM (these are well known weaknesses in the 105)and 2 days ago I removed the cover, WireWorld Series 8 XLRs straight into my RIc Schultz EVS 1200 (dual mono 600/1200 wpc class D with lots of tweaks to the surrounding parts


To get the full experience, I cranked my volume to a point where I quickly learned my speakers are now my weakest link

hth

sabrejet

The SA-10 is very fine indeed. This player was on my short-list, except, I could not score a demo here in the Southeast U.S.
Keep me posted as it settles into your room/system.

Happy Listening!

Safe and Sound has a 30 day return.

@twoleftears ,You can pick one of the following Sony players from eBay/Amazon for $50 and rip your SACD, as .dsf files.
BDP-S390 (or BX39), BDP-S490, BDP-S590 (or BX59), BDP-S4100, BDP-S5100 (or BX510)
I did this over the past couple of weeks. Did not realize that over a few years I had collected about 140 SACDs.

Is it just me or does it seem that Amazon only has garbage sacd titles in classical?

Who wants to listen to some ancient recording in sacd? ie living stereo stuff. The rest seems to be samplers and recordings or performances that were not well regarded in the first place.

Has all the good stuff been taken? Or something else?