Esoteric SA-50

Solid Esoteric CD-SACD player.  But it also includes a 32-bit Dual Mono DAC and a digital volume control.  

SACD and CD playback is excellent.  Esoteric VOSP transport.  CD can be upconverted to DSD.  SACD’s sound great.  The DAC was outstanding in its day (before asynchronous USB) and still is very good if you use the coax (RCA) or optical inputs.

Digital input: Coax (to 192kHz/24 bit); toslink; USB-B.  Digital out: Coax, toslink.  Analog out:  XLR and RCA.  Disks: CD and SACD (2 channel).  Also includes a clock input (BNC).

With the digital volume control, you can output this unit directly to a power amp and control the volume with the excellent remote control.  Or you can set the output to fixed and send the signal to a preamp.

Hasn’t been used in a while after I converted everything to streaming.  But the sound compares very favorably to my streaming setup.  CD’s and SACD’s sound great.

Casework is heavy, with a flat faceplate (not the Esoteric beveled look).  No scratches that I can find but a couple of scuffs.  Remote is in good shape.

Pricing this to sell.
If you pick it up locally (SoCal – Palm Springs area) I will include two boxes of CD’s.  Mainly classical.  One box has over 200 disks including the two Decca Sound classical 50-cd box sets, Mercury Living Presence box and 20-cd Martha Argerich box.  Lots of good stuff!