today i have played my first ever SACD... this may be old news to many of you but i was pretty excited to give the Bach sacd i got a run. my player is a fairly recently acquired Pioneer 565A (so nothing really high end), which has been used mainly to play dvds (which it does very well) so far. now i don't know if i have to burn in the sacd playing separately from the dvd playing (anyone?) but as a first attempt i was pretty impressed. i played the sacd in a two channel setup (my usual hifi setup) through my amp and speakers with rubbish cable so there are many improvements that can be made. Still, i noticed a considerable increase in soundstage and "air" around the instruments. volume contrasts seem to be more evident too... there is certainly a much greater sense of space and ambience compared to a normal cd (certainly compared to the cd layer of the sacd but i read that they make the cd layer of these hybrids in such way as to emphasise the sacd quality... marketing... :rolleyes: ) perhaps with a better external dac i can get even more sound out of the sacd reproduction... you can use an external hifi dac (bel canto for example) and the player as transport to boost both cd and sacd play cant you? or are there tricks i don't know about? ;) anyway, just to share my little moment of joy with all of you... have you had similar experiences with SACD? What are your experiences on this? :beer: Jack