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What is the best two channel SACD player for $1500
" what is warm to a stereophile reviewer is not warm to me." Any Stereophile reviewer?Kal 
B&W 802d Room Placement
I use about twice that for my 802Ds but I think that side wall relationships are more significantly related to toe-in as is speaker to listener distance.Kal 
What is the best two channel SACD player for $1500
The SONY C555ES was Stereophile Class A, not A+, iirc. The 777 and 9000 were A+ and the 5400 should be up there.Kal 
B&W 802d Room Placement
Depends a lot on the room acoustics and, particularly, what is on the side walls.Kal 
Center Channel Upgrade Question
If you can accommodate the configuration, using three identical speakers across the front is ideal and avoids any of the problems with horizontal-array speakers.Kal 
Recommendation for a New HT AVR?
$1000 does not buy what it once did. ;-)Kal 
Stacked Bookshelf Speakers -- Perplexing Nirvana?
As my mother used to say: "If you are happy, I am happy." ;-)Kal 
Best Pre/Pro for under a $1000 used?
Of course, none of those is capable of decoding SACD, TrueHD or dts MA. Nor does any one have HDMI facilities, afaik.Kal 
What would you recommend?
There's only one such universal so far: Oppo BDP-83.Kal 
Room EQ
I have used several. What's your system and what's your problem?Kal 
Oppo Blu-ray ???
Yes. Preliminary support is the current state. Kal 
Oppo Blu-ray ???
What is unique is not that it outputs all the audio by analog but that it is, at the moment, the only BluRay player that will play SACD and DVD-A. It will also output those via HDMI.Kal 
Multichannel amp for active loudspeaker
One suggestion would be an Ayre V-6xe, used of course.Kal 
Multichannel amp for active loudspeaker
First, since your initial interest in multiple tube amps was frustrated by the cost, you have to give us a budget.Second, there is a nice Butler MCH tube amp.Third, there are MANY mch ss amps but we need more info about cost and what you consider ... 
Buying SACDs in NYC, suggestions please...
I just refueled the SACD collection at Academy. More in about 2 weeks. Of course, those are not my favorites. ;-) Kal