# Paul’s last post on YouTube regarding SACD transports

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**Category:** Audio Components\
**Tags:** sacd\
**Created:** [February 5, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/paul-s-last-post-on-youtube-regarding-sacd-transports/40875 "2025-02-05T13:52:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 6, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/paul-s-last-post-on-youtube-regarding-sacd-transports/40875/4 "2025-02-06T21:54:26Z")

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Quite a lot of people that want to play SACDs found the Chinese box. I’m sorry, but I have no idea who the manufacturer of this box is and as Joe’s link above shows, you’ll have to go to EBay, it’s not on Amazon.

You’ll find a good starting point in the following thread:

> [@It Works ! - Sony UBP-X1000ES HDMI "Audio" output to Chinese I2S Adapter Board to DS Sr. I2S Input](https://forum.psaudio.com/t/it-works-sony-ubp-x1000es-hdmi-audio-output-to-chinese-i2s-adapter-board-to-ds-sr-i2s-input/15630/1):
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> Ordered this from China, and with a high current 5VDC Power Supply I had laying in box, sweeter audio quality was easily audible. Separating the CLK/Data signals is definitely the best way to listen to Digital Audio. Temporarily had to remove the S/PDIF (RCA) cable because the I2S PCB has a direct male to male HDMI adapter connecting it to the Sony Universal Player. An Optical cable is connected temporarily until I does some careful RCA 75Ω 90° Plumbing to get around the I2S PCB. The Dual HDMI o…

Thanks to Joe’s posts, I found this option and for me it worked almost in one go. I just had to connect the HDMI cables. Although my Strata mk2 does not recognise the bit rate in the display (seams to be a problem in the Strata firmware), SACDs, Blu-rays- and CDs play without any problem 🙂

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