[RobTi]

Hi all
i have a denon 1930 that i want to connect via sa-cd outputs to my sony stra-1200.
now the sony has 2 phono inputs for sa-cd but the denon has only the normal 6 outputs connections and 2 normal audio connections.
Do i connect the sony to the 2 audio or use the 6 separate ones?
Thanks
Robert

[Mr Incredible]

Does your Sony have EXT-IN for 5.1? i.e. phono inputs for Front L + R, Surrounds (L + R), Cenre and sub? If so, use those.

[RobTi]

Hi yes it has those and i was going to use them but when examining the back panel it has 2 phono inputs marked as sa-cd, so that threw me

[Mr Incredible]

OK! I may be a bit sketchy here in my knowledge, but I think Sony were the original developers/owners of SACD which was an attempt to prevent "CD" copying. There are no commercial products out there that will copy or duplicate an SACD "CD". To prevent people from intercepting the digital stream and ripping the audio out, Sony provided some form of encryption which either the SACD player had on board, or if it passed it to an external decoder over a secure connection. For Sony products it may be that they could guarantee this delivery mechanism through the two phonos route.

On the later Denon amps (and after a long protracted battle to get SACD licensed over the D-Link) are able to connect to the SACD player and get digitally connected for decoding by the amp. However, for those people without this connection the 5.1 analogue output was created. The SACD is decoded into multi-channel analogue output for connecting to amps without a proprietary license/encryption for SACD.

I think!

[charliecossie]

Mr Malice - your knowledge is "sketchy" to say the least.
Wikipedia can be your friend.

To the OP - a lot of SACDs are multichannel. To take advantage of this, you should connect the 5.1 analogue outputs of the player to the 5.1 analogue inputs on your amplifier.

The amplifier has a stereo, analogue input marked SACD for two basic reasons. The first is because there are many stereo-only SACD players and the second is because your amp is made by Sony, the co-developers (with Philips) of the format.

There are some great recordings on SACD. Enjoy.

[RobTi]

Thanks all
connected by 6 cheapo leads at the moment till i get something better
Robert