Sony SCD-XA5400ES

摘要

Just occasionally very creative people can pair two otherwise quite incongruous items and come up with something truly special. But an SACD player with a traditionally video-centric HDMI connection?rnThe reason is multichannel SACD audio and getting that data to an external DAC with almost zero jitter. As most plain vanilla HDMI connections have the jitters worse than a wino on a Sunday morning, this involves a proprietary clock-synching system in both source andrnDAC, launched here by Sony under the acronym HATS (High quality digital Audio Transfer System). The aim is near jitter-free DSD multichannel audio over a single and commonly available cable.