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Oppo 970H

Guess this will answer my question that I asked about a week ago here.


I asked if my sony 3100ES will pass 5.1 audio for SACD over HDMI. That's a NO correct???

I have an Oppo 970H, it plays SACD as linear PCM via HDMI 1.1. What I meant was DSD via HDMI, I guess I wasn't clear.


No current or past Sony DVD player passes any sort of SACD data, converted to PCM or otherwise, over HDMI.

You would be hard pressed to find a DVD player that even leaves SACD as DSD over analog unless you aren't applying any bass management and time alignment. Being converted to PCM is not a bad thing.

It's true that (realistically for most rooms) it's going to get converted to PCM at some point, if I had a choice I'd rather have the receiver or prepro do it though. Still I own the Oppo 970HD and the results are quite good, it's just that I'd rather use an HDMI 1.2 capable SACD player. The oppo 970HD has an issue with applying subtitles at 480i as well, that makes most video processors drop out of film mode when they shouldn't be but for the most part its been great for both audio and video.