[kennyt]

I and Jim Swantko are both very happy with out Esoteric DV-50s, they won't do SACD over HDMI though.

Wes,

Why do you want to have it run over HDMI??? You will of course be bypassing any D/A conversion in the player this way, and therefore only need a transport, does the Sony not output HDMI? If you really want to do this, you could even buy an Oppo for $200 and do it, buying a good to great SACD player and using the HDMI output is counterproductive unless you are feeding something sick like the ML 502......