This has prompted me despite Audio function of Bluray player yet to buy a SACD player. Since I had read some good tests over these players and he was the perfect complement to my present amplifier in the same design, I decided to purchase.
After unpacking was to see, that he is the perfect complement to my amplifier by design. Also a nice aluminum front and real metal buttons and controllers, not cheap plastic as with other manufacturers in this price range. Even the remote control is very valuable, is stable and has good pressure points. The only thing I would like to see sometimes with the many buttons on the remote, would be illuminated keys in the dark. But since I know that also by any other manufacturer, I will not blame the negative Pioneer.
Now for the most important, the sound. There was no AHA or wow experience. My first impression was even more subjective that some CD's for something worse than the Blu-ray player. Plain said, it sounds different and not quite as crystal clear. In a journal of the sound has been described as "velvety". That describes it pretty well. Much sounds softer, not as hard or clear (as you would but sometimes wishes), but I have the impression that some sounds in the background that I have not previously seen, can be heard now. Anderserseits example is on a CD of Leo Rojas (panpipe) in a song a solo passage with an acoustic guitar. The sound on the far Blueray player very crystal clear and impressive. About the SACD player less crystal clear, more softly, not so striking as on the Blu-ray player (which I liked better).
Conclusion:
It is certainly a good player. But my subjective (sound) impression is that the SACD player in no case three times as well sound like my 100 euro Bluray player. Apparently, it is so that if you already have a very good amplifier and quality boxes, it (almost) does not matter whether the audio signal from the CD of a relatively inexpensive Blueray player comes or by a more than three times as expensive SACD player , So if you want to use for normal audio CD's and the player has to stand a Blueray player in the same room, which in my opinion need not necessarily have to buy a SACD player. But for whom this is not the case and who is looking for a suitable hydric CD player to his Pioneer amplifier, is the PD-30 certainly well served me.
