In Reply to: RE: Channel Classics getting out of SACD mostly posted by PAR on April 30, 2016 at 00:24:12:
Dedicated sacd mechs are definitely not plentiful now, and likely never were. There never was a plethora of audio only sacd players, even in the beginning. Dedicated sacd mechs has a nice sound to it, but does it really matter? Marantz now has their SACDM-1 and SACDM-2 mechs and Esoteric has their VRDS mechs and that's about it.
The Ayre C5 used a dvd mech and nobody complained about the player quality. But then again the Ayre has reached the end of it's production cycle and is no longer made.
I just happened to look up the Sony UK site and was surprised to see that XE800 player. And like you mention, that doesn't necessarily mean that it is available.
The one new player that did come out in 2015 was the Marantz SA14S1, though it was in limited distribution.
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