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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
calanctus
151 posts
 
The Sony sounds very good on Redbook and excellent on SACD...however if you buy it, you will be paying for multichannel. If you want no-compromise 2 channel SACD, consider the Sony SCD-1, bought used right on this site.
abogaert
8 posts
 
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.
abogaert
8 posts
 
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.
abogaert
8 posts
 
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.
abogaert
8 posts
 
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.
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