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Best player of SACD's and HDCD's

I'm thinking of upgrading my Sony C222ES SACD player that's been moded by SACDmods.com, and getting somthing that plays SACD's in 5.1 and 2 channel as well as decoding HDCD's. Anyone have any recommendations? Price, Somewhere between $1,000. to $2,000. I think I should be able to do fairly well, especially if the ~ $2,000 buys something used for that ammount.
Thanks for your input...
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guss2
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The Lindermann and Classe decode both,but now your talking $8,000 and $12,000 respectively.Gary.
guss2
50 posts
 
Just read the post again,neither of the players I mentioned are 5.1(only stereo).
rgd
656 posts
 
The displays on the Denon 3910 and 2910 show "HDCD" but I am not sure that they do decode HDCD. Sometimes the display layout is kept identical between models for economies of scale (cheaper production) so you want to verify this. I'm quite sure that Denon's model 5900 did in fact decode HDCD and they can be found well within your budget.
gaudio_eek
312 posts
 
Denon DVD-3910.
rolloff OP
130 posts
 
Tfkaudio
Yes I'm happy with the C222ES, but it doesn't decode HDCD, and I have many more of those than SACD. So, with an eye towards the continual evolution of my system... I'm looking :-)
Thanks
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