[doggiehowser]

It was actually in an old magazine review I read of dcs’ last player

Found another reference to the same article.


“In the most recent issue or HiFi+ (November 2015 Issue 129) I just read that the reason for this is that Esoteric has stopped OEM sales of SACD transport because Sony had stopped supply of the chip required to read the DSD data stream from the SACD disc. Based on what I read in HiFi+ the companies that make SACD players using the Esoteric transport have bought sufficient supplies to produce and repair existing models that they make, however, with no future supply dCS did not want to introduce new models requiring SACD transports from Esoteric.”