Lord Dalek
Senior HTF Member
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2005
- Messages
- 7,107
- Real Name
- Joel Henderson
So I bought one of these at the thrift store...
Its a Sony SCD-CE595 which was apparently their "entry level" model in the early-2000s back when the company was seriously pushing the format (which of course laid a goose egg anyway). Now the reason I was interested in it, despite only owning two actual SACD's, is that I want to have a reason to not have to hang on to my UBP-X700 if I were ever to have the opportunity to upgrade to...say...that Panasonic everybody here likes. So naturally having a dedicated SACD player would help greatly in easing out the door.
This brings me to two problems...
A. I don't even know if the laser can still read SACD (it reads standard redbook).
And the biggie...
B. Because Sony was a bunch of CP zealots whose assbackwards decisions in the early 2000s were actually dooming their products, I have no actual way to hook this up to my modern day post HDMI 2.0 receiver and get the full 5.1. Why? Because its exclusively over RCA analog. Oh there's a optical output but it only decodes the standard cd redbook layers.
So my question is this...
Is there a way to convert the five individual RCA outputs for each channel into one orange digital coax? That seems like the only way because Sony made TOSEC useless on this device.
Opinions please, I have 10 days to take it back.
Its a Sony SCD-CE595 which was apparently their "entry level" model in the early-2000s back when the company was seriously pushing the format (which of course laid a goose egg anyway). Now the reason I was interested in it, despite only owning two actual SACD's, is that I want to have a reason to not have to hang on to my UBP-X700 if I were ever to have the opportunity to upgrade to...say...that Panasonic everybody here likes. So naturally having a dedicated SACD player would help greatly in easing out the door.
This brings me to two problems...
A. I don't even know if the laser can still read SACD (it reads standard redbook).
And the biggie...
B. Because Sony was a bunch of CP zealots whose assbackwards decisions in the early 2000s were actually dooming their products, I have no actual way to hook this up to my modern day post HDMI 2.0 receiver and get the full 5.1. Why? Because its exclusively over RCA analog. Oh there's a optical output but it only decodes the standard cd redbook layers.
So my question is this...
Is there a way to convert the five individual RCA outputs for each channel into one orange digital coax? That seems like the only way because Sony made TOSEC useless on this device.
Opinions please, I have 10 days to take it back.