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Hehe ;-)
Bad news here, the cleaning DVD didn't help with the SACD situation, I guess a new laser would be in order, probably not worth the trouble given the average audio of the system anyway...

Makes sense and you do need to got to "analog" at some point anyway to listen to the music ;-)

Thanks, analog inputs then, are they generally via RCA ? Won't work with the C450 in any case, will get a DVD cleaner disc to see if it helps.

Wonder why SACD sign can't pass through optical, a...

Yes but that works only once it's recognized the hybrid as a SACD and that's not happening for me, oddly enough there is no way to force that if it doesn't work automatically. At this point it looks...

Thanks, that's a thought, but looking at your first message above I could not use optical out into my C450 to use it as a receiver, how does one play hi-rez SACD layer (s) via analog ?

er...it's an "all-in-one" system containing both the player and the receiver, here is the link to the manual I posted above : http://tinyurl.com/2gx646k

Well it's internal. Having said that I opened it up to see if I could clean the lense but it's a mess in there what with the 5 disc changer and all, put it back together, no change.

Thanks for the welcome.

Unfortunately there is no option to select the CD/SACD layer on a hybrid disk I could find and the manual isn't showing any either : http://tinyurl.com/2gx646k

I guess...

Was recently given a used C450 system so I thought it was good time to finally get a few SACDs, unfortunately when I pop in the CD/SACD hybrids I got on Amazon the get recognized as CDs...

Anyone...

[sorry - posted in the wrong place]