$5k DAC....Will A $500 cd Transport Get It Done?

The correct answer is 0 you should be burning your cd's to a computer out puting via a high quality usb cable to your dac and you will get far superior sound with the ease of use that modern digital file management offers.

Sweeping statements don't address the variables which are often prevalent in most situations. Going from disc play to computer audio OK if all you own are Redbook CD's. With large collection of SACD's things get more complicated. Spend more money on another iffy eBay PS3 to rip SACD files? No thanks.

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Is there a way to burn SACD's to the computer?

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This thread was created with redbook cd's in mind. I don't own any SACD discs. I have no interest in SACD.
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I put a $99 bluray into a Berkeley Dac and is sounded pretty poor. Changed to a Rotel DVD Player (a $1,200 DVDA model from a few years ago) and the sound quality improved dramatically.

Upgraded that to an Esoteric X03SE and the sound became amazing.

You get out of things what you put into them...