Introduction

Sony originally came out with the SACD format in 1999. Unfortunately for those of us that invested in the format, mass market support never really came around, though in the audiophile community the format still thrives. Sony is still putting out SACD players for this market, and many of their previous models have not only been wonderful SACD players, but among the best Redbook CD players on the market. Sony’s current reference player is the SCD-XA5400ES, a single disc SACD player that supports both stereo and multi-channel SACD.