Sortin' Through The Gear - Sources 10Nov17

Wow - CD, SACD/DSD, mini-disc HD, MQA... "we've" endured so many formats it's amazing. I own platforms which will record and replay any of these. DSD -  1 bit depth but ~1Gig wide was Sony's archive format - WHICH ULTIMATELY WAS FAR ECLIPSED. I have a dozen albums and 2 SACD/DSD players. It didn't make the grade but it does sound spectacular. I audited some shit as I prep for churn and I am excited someone will receive an auditing system beyond compare. I gotta retain the formidable Sony 9000es platform! But I'll offer up the Onkyo DV-SP1000. They read the same discs but the Sony is "older" and 10# heavier (more expensive to ship on eBay) - appropriate for the desk as a legacy disc player. Still, not often I'll play DSD discs ore even DVDs directly - but its a universal reader (for any formats/encodings invented prior to 2007). Sony, formidable dinosour. 

Update - I'm selling the Sony as the Onkyo has HDMI and I think the Sony will sell better. I did a very close A-B compare of SACD from the deck and DSD (derived from the same SACD disc) on a couple of recordings and I can not tell the difference. I did pay a service $4/disc to extract the DSD stream from the SACD and give me the digital versions of tracks - a special ~$20K "ripper" is needed to do the extraction. Here I compared the Byrds SACD vs the DSD extraction. Bits are bits I guess - objectivity is a good thing.