The Sony is good, but the SA-14 is superior. It has a true balanced circuit and uses newer generation DACs. Unless you need multichannel, then I would seriously consider the new multichannel Marantz. Here is what an insider at Sony told me:
#2: Only the SCD-1 has balanced outputs but it sounds better, it was actually
designed, to be played through the unbalanced outputs, the RCA outputs.
YMMV. IMHO.
#2: Only the SCD-1 has balanced outputs but it sounds better, it was actually
designed, to be played through the unbalanced outputs, the RCA outputs.
YMMV. IMHO.