Will it play SACD's?
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As far as I know it does. I have a few sacd's by the kinks on that format and it had no problem playing on the c-7030 I borrowed from an adiophile friend. Am still away on Xmas sabbatical but will check when I return next week or I will try to speak with him beforehand.
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It will play them, but only the 2 channel layer on the disc. You will need an SACD player to get the benefit of the SACD disc.
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No. If you're interested in a multiple format unit, I'd suggest looking at a player by Oppo. It's quite a bit more money but it'll take care of EVERYTHING. Bill
902654
I am not familiar with SACD's. I just have Audio CDs. However, in the instruction manual for the player, on page 5 under the paragraph "Features", is the following statement: "Plays Audio CDs, MP3/WMA CDs, CD-R/RWs."
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I'm not sure but you can try it. I just download my music form youtube and amazon mp3's and it also plays all mp4s,mp5 so on.
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I don't know. I never tried this. You can probably play the disk in a laptop player. gm
2085756
Yes it can play music cd's..... Playable Discs BD-ROM BD-RE/ BD-RE DL (Ver.3) BD-R/ BD-R DL (Ver.2) DVD DVD-R/ DVD-R DL/ DVD-RW +R/ +R DL/ +RW CD, CD-R/ -RW
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No. The optical & coax are simply for playing back from DVD, Blu-ray, DAT, Minidisc, or CD. The music on the hard drive has already been encoded and is copied over from your PC. If you want to rip your SACDs to .dsf files you will need a modified Playstation 3. There are forums detailing this online.
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Hello, Thank you for your interest in our gear. The XDA-2 DAC is a great product, and is usually after the CD player in the signal path. Based on that, it has digital inputs (2 digital optical, 2 digital coaxial, 1 AES/ EBU, and 1 USB) and no analog inputs. So unfortunately you would not be able to run an analog input into the DAC. If your SACD player does have one of the digital ports, you can connect it out of the CD player into the XDA-2. If you are wanting to run the XDA-2 into the SACD player I am unaware if that is possible, you will need to check with your SACD player manufacture to confirm. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. I hope you have a great rest of the day.
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It should play, but I wouldn't recommend this model. It broke down after a month, and reading other reviews, I wasn't the only one.
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It won't play blue ray files as they come in blue ray discs. They need to be remuxed or converted to Mkv or Avi. You should be able to plug your 2TB drive.
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Yes it will play CDs! When inserted, the laptop will choose the default player like Windows Media Player or iTunes.
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It will play multiple types of disks (CD, DVD, Multi-region) if that is what you mean. It only has a capacity for one disk.
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Yes. It will play CDs. Optical drives like this Samsung are ALL backward compatible to older disc formats. If it plays Bluray, it will play DVD and if it plays DVD, it will play CD.**Because they still build all Bluray (blue laser) optical drives with DVD/CD (red lasers) as well
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you will, but you have to listen some lossless format, like .FLAC, .APE, etc..
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Yes, if you burn these CDs as an audio CD, and not as a data CD, they will play on an ordinary cd player/changer.
2251976
The only way to rip SACD has been using a PS3 with YellowDog Linux. Only the early PS3 "fat" systems could boot linux separately, and only those have SACD playback. I bounced by a web site that was selling a DSD DAC and advertising SACD ripping, so you can go that route if you choose. I've read that the AK120 will play SACD when placed on the drive, but please double-check before purchase. DSD to PCM would not be a bit-perfect conversion (it's a re-encode), and would depend quite heavily on the quality of the conversion algorithms, plus the number of converters are limited. Apparently NuForce DACs now (falsely) advertise "DSD Playback over USB" but it's via Fubar 2000 pre-converting the DSD to PCM.
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I have no idea, I bought mine from SounSeller in WI through Amazon and their add says nothing about "old version". You should inquire with the seller of this one (Portable Sounds). It may have something to do with the HDMI connection. My machine has performed very well so far with SACD. With CDs my Audio Research CD3 sounds better with some but others sound better on the SONY.
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In fact SACDs CAN be ripped, ironically using the PS3. However, you cannot play the resulting files natively on the AK120. You would have to re-encoded them to hi-res FLAC. This re-encoding probably results in the loss of the very detail you want from SACD music. Whether this detail loss is audible or not is an open question. DSD files purchased from various web sites are not currently supported by the AK 120. Hopefully that will be addressed in the future as this player seems quite good.
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You should have no problem playing standard CDs. CD-Rs or bootleg discs may not play. Contact Sony for more information.