SACD

SACD are expensive. Used Cds can be had for a buck a pop at store like Half Price Books.I bought thousands of $1 $2 CDs there.You never see SACD used, and if so, they are very expensive.
My experience is SACD typically have no background. No 'air' of the room or environment. Just the music from a black hole.I just bought a SACD player mainly because it decoded CDs via Toslink so well... Using DSD. (Marantz SA-10)
I would not bother buying SACD. I own less than twenty, and most of those are Bob Dylan dual layer I got on sale. On the other hand I own 2,500 CDs. after dumping a thousand CDs in a weeding frenzy.SACD do NOT sound any better than good CDs. And both formats are all over the place for actual sound quality when played back in a quality system.
So for the OP my suggestion is buy the SACD PLAYER, but actually buy used CDs dirt cheap. eBay has tons for dirt cheap, so does Amazon marketplace. (I bought piles from Amazon for a few bucks, Usually the shipping was way higher than the cost of the $0.50 CD!)So to maximise value. Go for the CDs.

+1 elizabeth
Have been following your lead for over a year and find the CD approach, when up sampled with SoX in JRiver, provides an audio result fully equivalent to SACDs.
BTW, some SACDs are notable, especially the Grammy award winning Dire Straits "Brother in Arms." In a 5-channel environment, this one is riveting.

Yeah I passed over the whole surround thing. I am two channel!I can see for folks who like surround and have the setup it could be very exciting to hear.

@elizabeth ,Not sure, so please don't be offended. But there used to be a writer for a mag with the same name as you. And she was a proponent of SACD. Stopped writing some years back. I am assuming that you are a different Elizabeth?

I never wrote for a magazine. There are over 1.5 million women named Elizabeth in the USA alone. Two other Elizabeth who share my last name (not related) who bank at my bank!!!. So I would say no, I am not that person.Where I worked I used an unusual nick name since the place had six Elizabeth working there. Having a common name is OK , but not much fun.