Coping in an Age of Uncertainty

I bought a Sony 777es player to use as a stand alone for SACD and as a transport for my Perpetual Technologies P1 & P3 boxes (along with the upgraded power supply). PT boxes are shockingly good. I have never heard regular cd's sound so analog. No digital edge whatsoever. I now have the best of both worlds.

All that is required for triumph of evil is for enough good men to do nothing[quoted from positive feedback]I will add and women to this.Anyhow it also say,s that all audiophiles and music lovers should be supporting both analog and sacd so there for i am as guilty as all the rest of you sitting on the fence as i listen to sacd and ignore vinyl.

SACD is great and the 777ES is actually pretty good on regular cd as well.

I have been wrestlingwith this issue myself. I recently purchased a 65 inch 16x9 HD ready TV. On DVD playback my Panasonic didn't look too good. I needed progressive scan so I was in a Circut City & they had a demo JVC Xv-723 for$450 so it was a no brainer. Where else can you get what is essentially line doubling for that price? As a DVD Player it works great but it also had DVD A so I am able to play around with that too. In CD playback it leaves a lot to be desired. In DVD A it is Interesting enough if the format takes off I will buy something a little more serious. I have also looked at the Sony units. Thanks to my job I know what it takes to make a product. Only a corporation the size of of a Sony could sell something with the build quality of the DVP-S9000Es for a list price of $1500. I am in the process of purchasing one not so much for the SACD playback but more so the reference DVD playback. So when all is said I will have spent $1500 or $1600 & have a DVD A player SACD& DVD video with progessive scan. I have an extensive collection in CD's & records so in the near future I might invest in an upsampler but I want to see what comes out in the next few months before I do anything because UP& Oversampling is provided by just a few companies at this time. Meanwhile I can spend some time evaluating DVD A & SACD.

none of the sony (or other) sacd players even come close to my wadia 850 on redbooks. so i should go out and buy a player that plays maybe 200 discs, with about 10 titles i want in sacd, that can't touch my 850 on normal cds, that needs a preamp, that the software costs a premium......HELLO! the problem is not the formats, its the companies and their financial motivations. which never seem to be in the end users best interest. i'll stict w/ my wadia for awhile.