New Item: Denon 1650SE SACD Player with iPod input via USB

[Gu Sensei]

This has come out and captured my interest.

A SACD player with digital inputs and a USB input that accepts an iPod using its USB connector. For sure the digital in gets upsampled and processed with 192kHz/32bit DAC. Not sure what happens with the signal via the USB/iPod input on the front panel. I am assuming that it works like the Wadia iTransport or Onkyo ND-S1 and gets processed the same way with the DAC.

Link is here in Japanese. MRSP is 178,000 yen but I am seeing them for around 132,000 yen which is maybe $1,500 US.

This looks like a sweet all-in-one SACD player/DAC/iPod digital transport. Very tempting.

 

[Stefan...]

Very interesting CDP. As you mentioned a SACD-Player and DAC in one device. Over here in Germany it's called the DCD-2010AE and it costs 1.999 EUR. Crazy.
Not quite sure about the digital transport for the iPod. The manual says only MP3 and WMA is playable via an USB stick. So maybe no lossless formats like ALAC or AIFF on the iPod, just MP3?

 

[ztsen]

Marantz cd player and receiver also have such usb for ipod, even pioneer receiver did that too. I read some where it use the LPCM digital signal.

 

[Pricklely Peete]

Looks like SACD is enjoying a resurgence of support so to speak with the latest crop of hardware from various major players in the industry.

I wonder if the new standards with Blue Ray will be exploited to their fullest (logically the BR player should be a good platform for the next gen Hi Rez audio files but it looks like no one is really taken the lead in that respect, in the recording industry nor at the manufacturer level) ?

Could it be yet another short sighted format war brewing ? I wish SACD would be adopted as the new Red Book II standard but it's likely there isn't enough cooperation among the manufacturers to allow another open standard like this. With the coming Hi Rez LPCM standard (that is open) on the net I wonder how all this plays out in the next 4 -5 years ?

Peete.