Looking for SACD player............

@tpreaves  You are looking at the Marantz SA 8005?  I have had mine since they first came out (I pre-ordered).  Every parameter of performance is met to a very high degree well beyond what you will pay for it.  It appreciates clean power and high quality cables.  The detail, sound staging, and smoothness are all there.  The bass is deep tight and harmonically rich.  You can hear the mouth and the chesty resonance of well-recorded vocals.  

In a word this component is "musical".  I have yet to hear of any disc spinner that can match its performance at anywhere near the price.

If you find such a piece of gear please post it here.

@tubes444 Amen!  In fact one of the most satisfying parts of our hobby can be finding those pieces of gear that perform well above what their lower price point would lead you to believe possible.  Hence the delight in the Marantz SA 8005.

@nyame Congrats. on the receipt of your modified player.  I am anxious to read about what you hear as differences pre to post mod.  You are more patient than I.  I would put a CD in the tray and play on repeat around the clock so within a week or so I could hear the fully run-in player.

Has anyone had the opportunity to compare a stock Marantz SA8005 with the Modwright modified SA8005?  I would love to read about that comparison.  Here's hopin'.

@dlcockrum Thanks for the link.  I just finished reading that thread. Lots of well-conveyed sound impressions of pre and post MW mod.

Thanks to the accolades many of you had for Modwright and a lot of reading about their mods., I sent my Marantz SA8005 away. Dan and Kristen were great to communicate with via email. They answered within a couple minutes on more than one occasion. Listening to vinyl for a few weeks (not at all a bad thing). Enjoying a Japanese pressing of the original Dire Straits effort. Great tunes with great sound.

Calling Parts Connexion tomorrow for a Hifi-tuning silver star 3A Slo Blo fuse to put in the 9.0 tube power supply. Tough to pass up on such good fuses being offered at 60% off! I’ll install that when my unit gets here around the end of January.

Tpreaves - Hope you are enjoying your modified Marantz.

Thanks to everyone for sharing your modification experiences in this thread.

Would anyone care to recommend a reasonably priced power cord for the Modwright 9.0 outboard power supply?