Just found out PS3 plays SACDs... does anyone buy those?

[JBlacklow]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

Most people would agree that the SACD playback on the PS3 is pretty damn amazing and if you have a PS3, there's no need to get an SACD player with DSD output.

You can always count on dobyblue to jump in on an SACD discussion!

Most receivers don't accept DSD natively and the majority of SACD players, in North America at least, all use 24/96 decimation for DSD so the PS3 is actually better than most standalones.

So true. In fact, the SACD team at Sony worked directly with the PS3 team to make it everything short of a flagship player.

And you definitely don't need a $1000+ receiver to play it. There are several companies such as Onkyo, Panasonic, and Sony themselves that make sub-$500 HDMI receivers, most of which even have multiple HDMI inputs that do both audio and video switching. Some of the low/mid-level Denons are also under $1000 and do a very nice job with the PS3 and SACDs.