Jeff,

Current SACD players can't play multi-channel SACDs. (At least the multi-channel track.) You need a special multi-channel SACD player for that. It will have 6 analog outputs only.

dCS will probably do like Sharp and Meridian and use a proprietary interface that will only work with their products. I hear Sony does not want a digital interface for SACD.

The 861 already has a multichannel input card, the IA40. It has two pairs of 6-channel inputs.

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that's what we expect from Meridian right?

I would not expect Meridian to support SACD.

I currently have the Pioneer DV-38a DVD-V/A player. It has 6 analog outputs for DVD-A.

Stacey Spears
Co-Creator, Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark, Blu-ray Edition and Lighthouses of the Pacific Northwest.