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Good Universal Player with Balanced Outs

I have been looking around for a while but I haven't seen any Universal players in the 2-5K range (roughly) that have balanced outs, at least one firewire port and are currently available. Can you suggest anything that would?

I tend to keep my equipment for a long time and I would like to get a player that I can be happy with for a number of years. Are the universal players at that stage yet or do they need a few more generations to improve their handling of the high-res formats and get most of what is possible out of SACD and DVD-Audio?
gpalmer

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stehno
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SACD and redbook is about as universal as I care to go. For that, I would recommend the Sony SCD-1 or 777es cdp's.

As for the XLR outs, I wouldn't want it any other way. Every now and then a certain amp comes along that does fabulous things with those extra 2 volts from the XLR connections. Things that in comparison can make single-ended connections seem rather enemic, flat, and top-heavy. In other words, pretty lifeless.

-IMO
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