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RE: Channel Classics getting out of SACD mostly

An OEM SACD mechanism is a mechanism dedicated to the replay of CD and SACD optical discs which is supplied by an Original Equipment Manufacturer to a manufacturer of finished players. It consists the mechanical drive,optics and some digital electronics, the latter normally concerned with control of the mechanism, reading TOC and decoding SACD. The DSD information contained on an SACD is encrypted which requires decoding.

One of the OEM SACD mechanism suppliers (in fact the last that remained in the market AFAIK) Teac/Esoteric no longer supplies other manufacturers. It now restricts its mechanisms to its own products.

The Sony decoding chip was not licensed to Mytek. Mytek does not make a chip that performs the same task. Mytek do make a chip that will decode SACD but not for SACD mechanisms, only for DVD drives. The latter fits in well with your final paragraph which I suspect it likely to be more or less correct.


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