SACD Players in 2025?

[Roland68]

Are there any dedicated SACD players with HDMI? Any that still get produced?

SHANLING offers something like that with the SCD1.3.
There weren't many true dedicated SACD players anyway, and a large portion of them were in the higher price range of several thousand euros/dollars.
One of the more affordable ones was the Sony SCD-XA5400ES.

Most were probably SACD players capable of playing Blu-ray and/or DVD.
Many inexpensive Sony Blu-ray players with HDMI output could play SACDs, often for under €100, for example, the current BDP-S1700. Not guaranteed. It's possible that only the older devices can play SACDs. Please check before buying.
Used players like these can be found for as little as €20.

Only a few of them support DVD Audio, for example, the UBP-X800M2.

 

[Scytales]

Are you sure the Sony BDP-S1700 is able to play SA-CDs? There is no mention of that capability on the Sony website neither in the relevant owner's manual.

 

[Rick63]

Are you sure the Sony BDP-S1700 is able to play SA-CDs? There is no mention of that capability on the Sony website neither in the relevant owner's manual.

The most recent Sony Blu-Ray player (non 4K UHD) that played SACDs via HDMI was the now discontinued BDP-S6700. The BDP-S1700 only played the CD layer of an SACD.

 

[Roland68]

Are you sure the Sony BDP-S1700 is able to play SA-CDs? There is no mention of that capability on the Sony website neither in the relevant owner's manual.

That's what it says on the German Sony website, at least, but of course it could be wrong.
The previous models could do it.
BDP-S1700 Technical Data

 

[Ron60223]

Save your money and keep your OPPO BDP 83 for music only, unless there are serious mechanical problems with it. I have each new OPPO version (93, 103, 105, 203 and 205) and find the change in sound quality to be evolutionary (incremental) instead of revolutionary. However, the video quality has improved markedly with each new version. I still play SACD and SACD-R on the 83 and I am quite satisfied. As long as you don't update the firmware, you can play SACD-R on 83, 83SE, 93 and 95. The 103 and 105 can be used to rip SACD if you just wish "to experiment." If I recall the 83 is DSD output capable so you can update to an external DSD dac.

 

[Scytales]

Save your money and keep your OPPO BDP 83 for music only, unless there are serious mechanical problems with it. I have each new OPPO version (93, 103, 105, 203 and 205) and find the change in sound quality to be evolutionary (incremental) instead of revolutionary. However, the video quality has improved markedly with each new version. I still play SACD and SACD-R on the 83 and I am quite satisfied. As long as you don't update the firmware, you can play SACD-R on 83, 83SE, 93 and 95. The 103 and 105 can be used to rip SACD if you just wish "to experiment." If I recall the 83 is DSD output capable so you can update to an external DSD dac.

Hi and welcome on Audiosciencereview !

Which SACD-R recorder do you use? I suspect SACD-R are just vanilla DVD-R that are specially formatted by the recorder?

 

[Power Pop 23]

Amazon USA is currently offering the Sony UBP-X700U disc player for $218

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DWH36G9J?

 

[jimmyjames8]

Was somewhat satisfied with the sound out of my Marantz SACD 30n until I compared the SACD playback to my Sony UBPX800M2 via HDMI to Marantz AV7706. 30n sounds veiled. Thinking about trying one of these Denons. Not a lot of choices these days.
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