Plan on getting an SACD player soon and was wondering do i Need cables that are specifically marketed for SACD players or am i good with 3 sets monoprice premium RCA cables? would rather spend $15 than $90 for cables if there's really no REAL difference.

3 sets of premium RCA cables will do you nicely. I personally use 1 set of their composite cables and one set of their component cables.

Ken:
Doesn't that leave you one cable shy?

Nnnnooo....

Ken is right, 3 sets will do the trick. No special cables necessary just regular audio cables will work just fine.

sweet! I've already ordered myself kind of blue and round about midnight let's hope ebay is nice to me on the player!

Which player did you have in mind? I have an Oppo-980. Video is pretty lame (I'm sure the others, more expensive Oppo are better for video), but for the price, the audio of SACD & DVD-A are rendered beautifully. I'm using HDMI for multich PCM.

I'm curious as to what you mean by "pretty lame". I have the 980 and it's as good as any other DVD player I've had. Mind you, I only have a 480p projector so haven't seen any of it's upscaling abilities, if that is what you were referring to.

I also mainly bought it for it's SACD/DVD-A capabilities.

I'm starting with a Pioneer dv-45a. figure for $100 it should do the job until i upgrade to something else. not buying it for video though, want to get into SACD see what all the copywrited fuss was about

I also bought the 980 only for the music; but at some point I thought I would put my "LG" to rest and spare an HDMI connection (I'm all out!). I was very disapointed. Actually, I thought so far that my LG upscaler was my weakest (the other being an HD-A30), but I quickly brought it back in!

My recommendation to everyone looking for Oppo is always: if you care about the video, the 981 and such are probably worth the extra 50-100$.

Nevertheless, for audio, to have a great player sending multich and DSD through HDMI for less than 200$, the 980 is quite simply amazing. So I am very happy with the 980.

For SACD, I have been real happy with the Pio DV48. Even does DSD over HDMI.