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SACD Players
Magnetar universal players are basically the successor to Oppo. I believe the company was founded by the Oppo engineers that designed their UDPs. Their menus are identical to Oppo and you can either play the SACD with the internal DAVs or use them... 
CD Player: Vintage or modern ones?
Budget? DACs have improved quite a bit since the dawn of the CD era.  This would include the the DACs contained in CDPs. it’s unclear to me if the OP streams currently.  If he does not and is interested in doing so then a streaming DAC with a CD... 
Receiver
Are there receivers that go for $10K?  Is the OP discussing 2 channels only or does he have the SFs in multichannel or Atmos?  Suspect an answer won’t be forthcoming   
Time to make a change ?
Fwiw the Stream Magic app for CA will return you to your prior position as long as you don’t sign out.  You can also access the queue and pull up your last listens and then leap from there back to your last place in the stored files.  
What are the best subwoofers you have heard for music. Speed, Musicality and integration
@calvinj  i started a REL thread in the speakers forum a few weeks ago.  In a few days I will have a T9x installed in a secondary system   
HiFi satisfaction and/ or Musical enjoyment
It’s inevitable that in these Forums certain topics will reappear with regularity.  Thee OP has however written a thoughtful post and I don’t like seeing the incoming that he drew.  I hope he sticks around and continues to contribute.   I was out... 
A question about the Bryston BDA-3's HDMI inputs
I had bought the BDA-3 precisely for its ability to play the DSD from SACD over HDMI.  I use an Oppoo 105 to output theDSD.  I believe that @cleeds is correct here  
AA for us
@grislybutter  sorry to hear that audio has become an obsession for you and that the fun factor has been replaced by fallout from that.   I think travel is great.  I am in Europe now and for the last week my internet reception was terrible.  It’... 
Are REL the most Musical Subs?
@sounds_real_audio    why are REL ‘duds’?  
The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD
This an odd site to be attacking someone with a large music collection   
Truly Stunning Vinyl Album
The Frederick Fennel recordings on Telarc are some of the most stunning recordings ever, in vinyl or digital.  Based on the OP love of the Heifetz recordings he should also investigate the ‘Albinoni’ Adagio. A soft somber organ followed by a deep ... 
Can anyone identify this equipment?
I’m guessing that he doesn’t have much preserved hearing so he probably isn’t too finicky about his gear.  It’s to bad that despite making all that money he doesn’t seem to be able to afford a listening room chair   
Ayre CX-5 / CX-7
Is Ayre still around?  I thought that when Hansen passed away the company eventually folded a few years later   
Are REL the most Musical Subs?
Well thank you for the input.  I’m leaving town for a few weeks and will be doing something here in a month or so  
Are REL the most Musical Subs?
I don’t know, I just perused the SVS site and the prices seem about the same as REL?  Maybe I’m missing something…