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are all sacd players the same?

A little technical help for the unenlightened please. I f i want to add another sacd player(i have quite a few discs) does the actual quality of the player matter as much as the ability to play the format? I know that a cd dac at 1000$ is going to be pretty different than a Berkeley or similar at 5k. the question is whether those types of rules hold true on the format change. (Is an oppo sacd going to sound significantly worse than an ayre, for example, at 6k.) thanks mike
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rlwainwright
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Well, at some point in the chain, those digital signals *must* be converted to analog. So the DAC and output stages do make a difference. Is that difference worth $5,000 to you? And do you have the ears, speakers, and a room that would justify spending an extra 5 Large?

I'd hazard a guess that for 98% of us, the answer is to save your money and spend it on better source material and/or better speakers and room treatments...

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