Playing SACD discs

[krass]

if  you dont want to go into pc audio... will you be getting more SACD's?

why dont you purchase a cheaper SACD player with a digital output?

my understanding was that digital outputs on SACD players only supply the CD layer info; and that the SACD bitstream is not available digitally except over an encrypted digital output like HDMI (a copy protection designed into the SACD system by Sony).

The exception is early Playstation 3s just after SACD was added, where they overlooked this in the firmware that processes the disc bitstream. Sony later corrected this, hence the current market for serviceable early PS3's with FW 3.55 or lower.