Sony Blu-Ray for SACD

[BigH]

I have been thinking about buying a
Sony BDP-S490 player to play mainly cds and SACDs I see it is now only £80 would this be a good choice? It will be into a Dac or active speaker. Not really bothered about playing dvds but that would be a bonus.

 

[manicm]

If you're not gonna watch any movies I'd rather get a good 2nd hand dedicated SACD player like a Marantz etc. Remember, most universal Blu-ray players - even high end ones - will only output native DSD through HDMI, and internally they convert DSD to PCM, unlike a good audio-only player.

 

[BigH]

OK thanks, will hav eto rethink, I don't want to spend much on a SACD player as I probably won't buy many sacds as difficult to buy and expensive.

 

[Sizzers]

UNPUBLISHED BY MODS - NO TRADING ON THE SITE PLEASE AS PER HOUSE RULES

If you are potentially interested in a SACD player let me know and I can link you to where I have a Marantz SA7001 (non-sig) for sale at what I consider to be a very good price.

 

[BigH]

"most universal Blu-ray players - even high end ones - will only output native DSD through HDMI, and internally they convert DSD to PCM, unlike a good audio-only player."

Now does that matter if the signal is going straight into a DAC?

How much is your Marantz 7001?

 

[The_Lhc]

"most universal Blu-ray players - even high end ones - will only output native DSD through HDMI, and internally they convert DSD to PCM, unlike a good audio-only player."

Now does that matter if the signal is going straight into a DAC?

There aren't many DACs that handle DSD natively and I don't think any of those are HDMI equipped.

It definitely doesn't matter if you're plugging it into an AV amp that will decode DSD over HDMI, there are a fair few of those around now and of course you'll need an AV amp/processor if you want to listen to multi-channel SACDs.

 

[BigH]

OK having looked into more the important thing seems to be optical out which the 490 has also it has HDMI as well, in fact only thing it does not have seems to be wifi.

No I don't want multi-chaneel just stereo is fine.

 

[The_Lhc]

OK having looked into more the important thing seems to be optical out which the 490 has also it has HDMI as well,

You might want to check if it'll pass DSD out of the optical connection though.

 

[BigH]

Thanks that is a fair point.

 

[Sizzers]

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How much is your Marantz 7001?

Well you can have a look here (if of interest then obviously contact me through there).

 

[BigH]

UNPUBLISHED BY MODS - NO TRADING ON THE SITE PLEASE AS PER HOUSE RULES

How much is your Marantz 7001?

Well you can have a look here (if of interest then obviously contact me through there).

Thanks, why are you selling it?

 

[RobinKidderminster]

I thought sacd was to output 5.1? In stereo is it better than cd? I have only 2 sacd's borh in 5.1 but so expensive I'd not be buying many.. Sony does fine for cd's, sacd's and mostly bluray ofcourse to 7.1

I will stand corrected.

I would ask do u want a bluray player to spin a sacd or a cd player to spin sacd. You mention no other kit.

 

[RobinKidderminster]

Trading not allowed. I suggest enquiries thru 'preloved'

 

[Sizzers]

Trading not allowed. I suggest enquiries thru 'preloved'

I’m not copying over the reply I received from WHF on this very subject without their permission, but I queried this following the change of “House Rules” last year.

Essentially the reply was that they are “relaxed” about linking if you are a private individual , not trade, and it’s relevant to a fellow members interest but they don’t encourage blatant trading.

 

[Sizzers]

Please respond through Preloved as requested.

Thanks.

 

[RobinKidderminster]

I wish I had paid attention when exchanging my pristene set of AR speakers a few months back ! I would actually encourage 'private trading' of this kind as I have mentioned here before and please dont think I was making a personal 'attack'. Hope it all turns out well for all parties. Cheers

 

[Sizzers]

I wish I had paid attention when exchanging my pristene set of AR speakers a few months back ! I would actually encourage 'private trading' of this kind as I have mentioned here before and please dont think I was making a personal 'attack'. Hope it all turns out well for all parties. Cheers

I didn't take it personally at all, but it can/does get confusing about what is/isn't allowed!

 

[bigboss]

Trading not allowed. I suggest enquiries thru 'preloved'

I’m not copying over the reply I received from WHF on this very subject without their permission, but I queried this following the change of “House Rules” last year.

Essentially the reply was that they are “relaxed” about linking if you are a private individual , not trade, and it’s relevant to a fellow members interest but they don’t encourage blatant trading.

That's not how I read the house rules:

11. The site must not be used to solicit business of any kind – this includes any information in signatures and biographies, and specifically prohibits trade users from linking within forum posts or their signature to their websites, special offers, etc..

 

[The_Lhc]

That's not how I read the house rules:

11. The site must not be used to solicit business of any kind – this includes any information in signatures and biographies, and specifically prohibits trade users from linking within forum posts or their signature to their websites, special offers, etc..

That bit...

 

[Andy Clough]

Strictly speaking we don't allow trading of any kind: we're looking at the possibility of introducing private classifieds if there's enough demand for it, but for now the House Rules prohibit trading of any kind, private or otherwise.

 

[MajorFubar]

I'd say there's a demand for it...perhaps I'm too stupid to understand what the risks and issues are.

Ideally though what you want is an area where new adverts automatically create locked threads that only the creator can edit, post and amend, where enquiries can only be sent via PM (and currently we don't have PMs at all), and where the thread self-deletes after say two weeks. I've seen all this done on forums that use normal bulletin-board software like phpBB or VBulletin, but don't ask me how.

 

[Andy Clough]

It's perfectly feasible, but requires quite a lot of investment at our end as we discovered when we implemented private classifieds on one of our other sites, pistonheads.com, last year.

 

[RobinKidderminster]

I can't argue with costs Andy tho' to my novice thoughts I would hope a very simple classified thread would be easy. I also think that a bouyant 2nd hand market would help new sales, allow some to invest more deeply and encourage our interest in the 'sport'. Bit late more me since I am broadly content. I rhink I would be happier negotiating with forumites rather than ebayites. Any member could buy but only members of more than 12 months membershkps could sell. To stop the site becoming hifiebay.It may even encourage local forumites to meet. Hey ho. Happy New Year

 

[Sizzers]

Strictly speaking we don't allow trading of any kind: we're looking at the possibility of introducing private classifieds if there's enough demand for it, but for now the House Rules prohibit trading of any kind, private or otherwise.

Well below is the reply I received from WHF on the very subject:

20/04/2012

Hi Malc

Section 11 is primarily aimed at members of the retail trade to stop them from advertising for ‘free’ on the website. If you have a particular item to sell personally (as a private individual) which is relevant to something another poster has asked about, we are relaxed about you linking to that. But we don’t encourage blatant trading.

whathifi.com

 

[Andy Clough]

Hi sizzers, thanks for that, although I must admit that's the first time I've seen that reply, so I can understand your confusion. I don't want to appear heavy-handed about this, so please don't feel you're being victimised! I guess if you have something to sell that's of interest to another reader then we'd be happy to pass that message on to them via email, but for now I'd like to keep the Forum itself free of trading.