I have a reasonable collection of SACD disks. I enjoyed the old
Sony DVP-S9000ES when I had it. In looking at a good sounding player for my collection, is this still a consideration or would you suggest something else. Limited to 500 dollars to spend. Thanks
I have not had the chance to compare the 5400 to anything. I have had a couple of OPPO and thought they were good with an exception....I believe the British reviewers call it PRAT, and the OPPOs I have used were a bit lacking in that. One of the most involving/PRAT units I had was the Classe CDP-1....the old Ultra Analog DAC unit.
If the majority of your SACD disks are multilayer (with redbook playability) why bother @ such a price point?
This said, I was less than impressed with early SACD (sounded imbalanced/phasy) with SOTA gear @ the time, but it could have been the SACD discs/recordings themselves.
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