PS3 supporting SACD?

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Originally Posted by Casey

my dvd player has a sacd player in it, but requires the use of multi-channel audio cables (one cable for each speaker) Do all sacd players need these cables?
The PS3 does not have multi-channel audio outs, just hdmi and optical, so i'm not sure how this will work. maybe it will work over hdmi, but then you'd need a receiver with hdmi input, or some sort of crazy adapter

DVD-A and SACD required you to use the analog cables (Phono RCA jacks) to get the full high resolution I think because of that great boogieman copyright. (I believe that if you connected it through the SPDIF, you might get the sound, but downsampled to more mortal parameters? But I wouldn't know, as I have mine connected through the analog all the way to the speakers so I never looked into it). This I know: There are players and audio receivers that can connect the full high resolution digital signal through i.Link/Firewire/IEEE 1394 (for example, Denon Link?). And HDMI 1.2 works too I think.

dobyblue, I have the Floyd, the Police, and the Elton discs from you list. I shouldn't post my list of SACDs/DVD-As/DTS-CDs and HDADs as it would be as long as my Apocalistic Redux BD list, so I'll just mention some of the artists I have in SACD: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Rolling Stones, Beck, The Who, George Harrison, Journey, Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, Miami Sound Machine, The Carpenters, Meatloaf, Boston, David Bowie, classical recodings by Telarc, RCA Living Stereo, Mercury Living Presence. And many more.

Sometimes I use as first demo for SACD "virgins", the Henry Mancini Pink Panther theme
Their usual reaction is just: "Wow"