joachim.herbert wrote:sacd is a copy protection scheme developed by sony that did not gain much populartity due to its limitations. There is no way to play sacd files outside a chain deemed "secure" by its designers. Signal transport is via hdmi and special logic that decodes the copy protected datastream.
You need to rip the sacd layer to a file before you can play it outside of this environment. spdif output of unmodified sacd players is always downsampled pcm with low sample rate, i.e. 44 or 48 kHz. Just google rip sacd for the full story. This was possible with some older modified blueray players, oppo if I remember correctly. These are not available anymore.
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I wouldn't have described it as "sacd is a copy protection scheme", but I get your point. There is a lot more to SACD than copy protection (DSD being the obvious thing), however, getting a license for building an SACD player requires that the only way you output exact digital is via an interface that has copy protection. Which means only over HDMI with HDCP. There can be no supported way to get an exact digital output without the copy protection.
However, based on the fact that all software has bugs, people have figured out how to hack many Blu-ray players to run software that exports the SACD bitstream without encryption. You're not going to find that your PS3 natively supports that. But many, including the PS3, can run software that will do it. The hardest part of ripping SACDs is muddling through the threads that help you get set up. That can be frustrating. But once you're set up it's easy-peasy.
I use a Sony BDP-BX59A that I picked up at the local Goodwill for $9.95. It works well, and I'm now hooked, so I went back and picked up another BDP-BX59A a few weeks later for the day that the first one fails. That one was $7.95.