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SACD player for CD

Hey, look, I've got thousands of CDs and I'm more than a little reluctant to start buying the same music, yet again. I'm willing to get into SACD (forget DVD-A, I don't want a video monitor in my listening room so I can figure out what's on) if someone will assure me that a decent SACD player can play Redbook as well as, say, a $1000 stand-alone CD player. How 'bout it? Recommendations?
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bigkidz
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Get the Sony SCD-777ES and then go for a mod. It will improve both the SACD and redbook CD play back and compete with higher priced CDPs for less.
bigkidz
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Bigtee is correct with the Meridian comments. I compared my Sony SCD-777ES directly to the 508.24 and the Meridian was better, not by a hugh margin, but better. The SOny was literally brand new out of the box. I did not buy the Meridian for two reasons, it was being discontinued and I got the Sony for the employee price. Again, since there are so many 777s on the market, give them all your best offer. Then later you can get it modded and really have something to talk about.
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