SACD/DSD digital signal is not available on any players I know of. Decoding is internal to the player, to give analog out. that is one of the standards in SACD to apease the music companies, no direct digital recordings. cus' then you would have some great perfect copies forever. An SACD player plays CD, probably has CD signal digital out, not DSD. and if you play a Hybrid SACD, on a CD player, what you get in digital is CD, of course it still soudns better than "regular" CD. DSD is good stuff.

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SACD/DSD digital signal is not available on any players I know of. Decoding is internal to the player, to give analog out. that is one of the standards in SACD to apease the music companies, no direct digital recordings. cus' then you would have some great perfect copies forever. An SACD player plays CD, probably has CD signal digital out, not DSD. and if you play a Hybrid SACD, on a CD player, what you get in digital is CD, of course it still soudns better than "regular" CD. DSD is good stuff.

Whoa....hang on.

There are SACD players, even SACD transports, that will output a DSD digital signal. However, these are genrally quite expensive and their DSD digital output use some kind of proprietery output/input interface....which generally means the DSD signal is converted using a receiver or DSD DAC from the same brand. There are no stand-alone DSD DAC yet.

When you play a hybrid SACD in a CD player, using its digital output, what you will get is regular old 16 bit/44.1 CD signal. And to confuse you further, there are regular CDs out there that are DSD-mastered or remastered....such as those from Telarc or early recordings from Elvis on BMG.