Choosing a SACD player...please help


I am going to give SACD a second try. Two players I am considering are the Sony XA777ES and the Philips SACD 1000. I have also heard good things about the Marantz SA-14, and I've seen a new generation of Marantz SACD players out for below $1200. My budget is 2K, and I am wondering whether to spend 2K on a stock machine or get a less expensive machine and get a bunch of mods done (I don't need multichannel).

In the end, I would like this machine to be killer on SACD and eminently enjoyable on redbook. Can you help me?
pardales

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xa777es. J&R has it in New York, $1799.00 and they`ll ship for free if you bargain a little. SCD-1 $3000.00. I chose the xa777
jus because i think is newer technology and to my ears it sounds better. Beware, in the stores they usually have the xa777 hooked using the 5 channels and when they play stereo discs they osuput from Front left and right instead of hooking the thing from the dedicated two channel stereo, i think that`s why the scd-1 sounds better in some stores. that`s the case at J&R and four more shops that i visited.
xa777es. J&R has it in New York, $1799.00 and they`ll ship for free if you bargain a little. SCD-1 $3000.00. I chose the xa777
jus because i think is newer technology and to my ears it sounds better. Beware, in the stores they usually have the xa777 hooked using the 5 channels and when they play stereo discs they osuput from Front left and right instead of hooking the thing from the dedicated two channel stereo, i think that`s why the scd-1 sounds better in some stores. that`s the case at J&R and four more shops that i visited.
xa777es. J&R has it in New York, $1799.00 and they`ll ship for free if you bargain a little. SCD-1 $3000.00. I chose the xa777
jus because i think is newer technology and to my ears it sounds better. Beware, in the stores they usually have the xa777 hooked using the 5 channels and when they play stereo discs they osuput from Front left and right instead of hooking the thing from the dedicated two channel stereo, i think that`s why the scd-1 sounds better in some stores. that`s the case at J&R and four more shops that i visited.
xa777es. J&R has it in New York, $1799.00 and they`ll ship for free if you bargain a little. SCD-1 $3000.00. I chose the xa777
jus because i think is newer technology and to my ears it sounds better. Beware, in the stores they usually have the xa777 hooked using the 5 channels and when they play stereo discs they osuput from Front left and right instead of hooking the thing from the dedicated two channel stereo, i think that`s why the scd-1 sounds better in some stores. that`s the case at J&R and four more shops that i visited.

pardales i tried to e-mail you but it was returned. The address is jandr.com i think i got the last xa777 last thursday but they expecting more probably monday. they have the scd-1 in stock :3,000.00 and they selling the display model (not the demo) for 2700.00 or 2800.00. you can call (212) 238-9000. If you call in sunday ask for ext. 2123 and speak to Michael Ruski he is good, tell him that Angel send you. e-mail me when you are done.