Universal disc players

Gentlemen,

Thank you for your Responses.

@audiosaurusrex, would you mind telling me what you mean by tube modifications and what kind of improvement you expect?

@glennewdick, could. you give me the model numbers of what you are referring to?

@uberwaltz, I just happened to stumble across both the Arcam and the Marantz last night and will be looking further into both of them.

Any thoughts on the Pioneer LX800

Anyone else want to join the party and share their thoughts on the previously mentioned units or a different player that has not been mentioned please do.

Thanks

Once again I want to thank everyone whom have responded. All information is greatly appreciated.

I will be entering an internet black hole for the next two weeks but will check back in after that to see if there have been anymore updates.

I have to admit that I am intrigued by Ayre but not if they can't easily service the unit so I will contact them after my return to find out if they can service the the DX-5 DSD. If they can't I would say that the Pioneer LX500 and LX800 maybe the most appealing. Anyone have any thoughts on the Marantz UD 9004 or UD 7007.

Thanks again
Rusty

@jafant 

Thanks for asking.

I was intrigued by the Ayre DX-5 DSD mostly because of the company's design philosophy. I searched the net looking for a used one. I passed on the one on USAM that had been for sale for a couple of years because I thought it was overpriced. After a few months I became distracted by other things and stopped looking for awhile, plus I came upon some collectable Champagnes and spent more money on those than I should have. I recently started looking again and still no Ayre's that I could find so I decided to look for my second choice, a Pioneer LX500. I've searched online retailers and everyone seems to have had them backorder for quite awhile now and I believe they are no longer listed on Pioneer's website so I'm thinking it may have been discontinued, which puts me back at square one and rethinking the whole process. I probably am going to just keep the cheap Samsung Blu-ray that we have and add a CD transport. But we will see. The saga continues.