hello
i am trying 2 connect my yamaha 5 disc sacd player to my denon 3806 receiver but cant seem to get the receiver settings correct. can anyone assist me?
Yes, you need to use the analog connections. Make sure you set the player to output DSD, not PCM. Most devices default to PCM. Then you loose most SACD advantages. The problem is that you have to build a trim and switching system to do the level match and bass management to use a DSD output. Now that is something always concealed from the consumer. Unfortunately you need some DIY skills to really take advantage of SACD, when outputting from DSD.
Some players, may be the majority I understand, do not even let you output directly from the DSD decoder, and always convert to PCM. That makes the whole endeavor rather pointless in my view.
Some receivers will accept SACD via HDMI and can decode DSD. However when we went over this a few weeks ago, if you read the fine print carefully, there is no level matching and bass management from the receivers DSD decoders. The reason being that signal processing in DSD takes a huge amount of processing power.
If you can get it right though, it is awesome.
The other issue, is that for multichannel SACD the rear speakers need to be at the back, in the position of the center backs in a Dolby 7.1 system.
