SACD transport - recommendations please

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And if you don't go the expensive PS Audio route, yet insist on having true DSD output from the player, you're stuck with relying on the DAC inside the player... so to overcome the noise etc. generated from that, you're gonna have to spend even more on a higher-end bit of equipment than you would in using it as a transport. Total non-starter - better off ripping or downloading the dsf files then running them through a decent, external reclocker etc.
 
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And if you don't go the expensive PS Audio route, yet insist on having true DSD output from the player, you're stuck with relying on the DAC inside the player... so to overcome the noise etc. generated from that, you're gonna have to spend even more on a higher-end bit of equipment than you would in using it as a transport. Total non-starter - better off ripping or downloading the dsf files then running them through a decent, external reclocker etc.

Well I don't think having an internal DAC on a high end player is a bad thing or necessarily causes noise. Marantz have the Model CD30n, for example.
 
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I'm sure the CD30n is an awesome piece of kit!

Ofc, it's the internals that create noise for the DAC and not so much the other way around as your message implies.
So as a basic principle, it's always for this reason that it's better to have your DAC as isolated as possible e.g. not in the same casing as something needing to perform a different function. But Sony and Philips couldn't have that when it comes to SACD could they?
Sony & Philips' insistence on SACD bitstreams being downscaled and converted to something defeating the purpose, is ultimately what holds the format back then. And you can get DSD sources of much better quality/multiples than the entry-level DSD64 that's on SACDs anyway.
 
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