First time at responding so bear with me. I replaced a Wadia #20 transport with the 777ES. I bought the Sony for the SACD format ONLY with intention of keeping the Wadia for normal CD play. After A/Bing the two for well over a month the Wadia is no longer in my system. Admittedly I am running the Sony through a Timbre DAC when playing standard CD's with great success. As stated above, they (777ES/SACD-1) are slow in loading, but after many months of use, one dosn't even think about it anylonger. A freind of mine just bought a new CD player and he wanted to see how it sounded on my system, when I pushed play at the player it was playing before I turned to go back to my chair, kind of caught me off gaurd, point is, it's no big deal. Lets not forget why we are participating in this crazy hobby, it is about the music. I will continue to be plagued by the slow loading time of these players in return for the excelent results from the sound especially in the SACD mode.......Bob
