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Have Good DAC, Will This Work A Transport?

I really need a quality source suddenly, due to a change in situations. I have an excellent Bryston BDA-1 DAC available, and free access to a mint condition Sony DVP-9000ES DCD/CD/SACD player, that was used only a 3-4 hours a week, for a year before being stored.

These very well made units (28 pounds, all copper chassis, etc.) were modded heavily, and expensively, by Modwright, and also Vacuum State Electronics some years ago, so I suspect the transport must be good. I would appreciate your thoughts on whether this would result in high quality sound. Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Alternatively, I could buy a transport for under $1k, but cannot find any units that can do SACD playback, which is necessary. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated.
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jrinkerptdnet
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using the Sony as a transport only it will NOT play SACD ... you would have to use the internal DAC on the Sony when playing SACD

so you would connect a digital output to the Bryston AND the analog outs to a preamp analog input and use that source selection when playing SACD

hope that makes sense!
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