Bargain SACD Players For Ripping

[Q4Fan]

I was looking to get myself an SACD player and buy this disc until I started searching here downunder.

https://www.theaudiotailor.com.au/collections/sacd-players
I will keep looking for cheaper players.

 

[Petr Kropotkin]

I was looking to get myself an SACD player and buy this disc until I started searching here downunder.

https://www.theaudiotailor.com.au/collections/sacd-players
I will keep looking for cheaper players.

You can get very good second-hand SACD players fairly cheap everywhere, including Oz, that also will rip your SACDs (a feature certain early models had, but new players no longer do). For example, there's a SONY BDP-S5100 player on ebay.com.au (in Tweed Heads, NSW) that has that capability and will sell for $130, or accepts auction bids starting at $70.

People sell these old players cheaply for many reasons (e.g. upgrading to another model), so you shouldn't assume it's dodgy if the price seems low. It's a good idea to get an SACD player that can rip your discs, since you'd have a file copy, and then sell the SACD if you wanted to. A list of the relevant models can be seen here in a summary article:

Models that can rip SACDs

There's also a thread on this site that explores the issue:

Ripping SACDs

 

[watsontr]

I was looking to get myself an SACD player and buy this disc until I started searching here downunder.

https://www.theaudiotailor.com.au/collections/sacd-players
I will keep looking for cheaper players.

I bought a Sony BDP-S590 from eBay a couple of years back for A$50. Plays and rips flawlessly as best I can tell

 

[dadregga]

I was looking to get myself an SACD player and buy this disc until I started searching here downunder.

https://www.theaudiotailor.com.au/collections/sacd-players
I will keep looking for cheaper players.

You'll have a much, much easier time if you get a $35 Sony SACD player that can rip the raw multichannel audio to files.

Buying a SACD player with multichannel out is hard, expensive, and totally unnecessary unless you really want to physically handle a CD during every playback session.