there is no way to copy sacd's (even making your own sacd's is not an easy task even for pros - it invovles buying a $15k genex dsd convertor, some proprietery (i'm guessing here) sony software, who knows what kind of burner...) , but making dvd-audio disks is slowly coming down to the prosumer level. the new samplitude supports dvd-audio burning within the program.
has anyone made backup copies of dvd-audio disks using standard dvd backup utilities? i'm guessing that would work.
while it would be possible to copy sacd disks to dvd-audio - you would need a good sacd player, 5 (assuming multichannel) good AD convertors (benchmark, mytek, apogee), & a pc with samplitude & a dvd burner i think its just easier to spend the $20 for your own copy of a sacd disk.
is there any receiver out there that will take a 5.1 analog input & output a digital stream over toslink? for 2 channel sacd this is not a problem.
i found a "dvd audio ripper", but its unclear if it works on dvd audio disks, or just the audio part of dvd's...
http://www.mp3towav.org/DVD-Audio-Ripper/
there are alot of cd collections (high rate mp3 or FLAC) that play back on hi-fi systems using a media player (wireless unit with a TOS output) , but is it possible to do the same for multi-channel output? save them as AC3 files? are there any media players that output 5.1 thru a toslink device? (you could hook up a m-audio audiophile which will output 5.1...)
-carl