And if you're willing to spend more money, you can buy a Sony S9000ES CD/DVD/SACD player ($1500 retail and about $1100 mail order). It's CD play is being compared to comparatively priced CD players. It's SACD play exceeds $10K turntables and CD players. Check out the reviews in audioreview.com. I love my S9000ES. I bought a Panasonic A7 ($1000 list, $500 street) and JVC723GD ($900 list, $570 steet), but returned them. After listening to the 9000ES, the CD play of the other two, plus my Sony DVP-300, sounded cheap.
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I am going to upgrade my CD player A few people have said I should consider a DVD player with 24/96 DAC's ie Pioneer dv37 which is in my price range (see previous post). Is this a feasible alternative to a $600-700 cd player? I would like to have a DVD player since I don't have one yet but I don't want to sacrifice sound quality. As always thanks for your input.