News help choosing a SACD Player / transport

I also have the Teac 701t, it's a great machine.  

@richardbrand  It is a Golden Atlantic. You are right: it has not HDMI input.

It has coaxial, BNC and optical besides the USB input, the actually used.

@OP - To clarify a comment in one of the posts above: it is true that many - in fact the majority - of SACDs are derived from PCM files. That is because the vast majority of the DAWs that they are mixed on are PCM based. However, most of those recordings are output at sample rates and wordlengths that are higher that 16/44. There is zero point in buying an SACD transport if the accompanying DAC is not fully compatible with it. 

Your budget is getting close to the price of an Esoteric K-05XD and you can certainly find a preowned one within your budget. It is an outstanding player.

some of the greatest bargains in audiodom are the older universal players from pioneer, integra, sony etc, many of which are overbuilt to hell. i'm  a big fan of the pioneer elite dv79 and the denon 5910--you can usually find 'em for a few hundo, as opposed to dropping a couple grand on a new model.  since i won only a few sacd discs this would be the route i would go. a used oppo 95 or 105 would be another route.

For you to to get the SACD layer off the disk going to a dac it must be an HDMI to HDMI connection from the transport to the DAC. Since your DAC doesn’t have an HDMI input, and if you want to keep your current DAC, you will have to get a breakout box. It’s been talked about here several times. If you search for HDMI breakout box, you should find it. They are $50-$90. Some will say you will lose quality others will say there is no loss in quality but for less than a Benjamin what’s your downside in giving it a try.