Current Universal Players

Look for a used Marantz UD7006 or UD5007 Universal player, they pretty much play every format you mentioned, and then some.  I have both in different systems and very happy that I decided to purchase them.before being discontinued. 

I love HDCDs...far more than SACDs....but nothing decodes them anymore.

Keep your 205 and buy a great red book dac. The sound of red book will be so far superior what you have, my guess is you will forget SACD.  But you will still have the ability to play any of those discs. There are plenty of threads on Rockna, Holo, Denafrips.  Spend 5k or more and the upgrade will be amazing IMO.  

@8th-note 

@secretguy 

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High Definition Compatible Digital

Media type	Optical disc
Capacity	Typically up to 700 MB
Read mechanism	780 nm wavelength semiconductor laser
Developed by	Pacific MicrosonicsInc./Microsoft
Usage	Audio storage
Extended from	Red Book Compact disc
Released	1995; 27 years ago High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD) is a proprietary audio encode-decode process that claims to provide increased dynamic range over that of standard Compact Disc Digital Audio, while retaining backward compatibility with existing compact disc players.

I purchased a Marantz UD7007 universal player from a US seller on eBay a couple of years ago - it was little used, essentially new. I'm very happy with it since it offers XLR balanced out from it's internal DAC, and digital out to my main DAC, as well as two HDMI, which gives me options. SACD through the internal DAC and the XLR sounds good, but I got a HDMI to I2S conversion box to allow me to use my external DAC, just to see if "better" was possible. So far, no success in getting it to work. The transport seems decent - unlike my Sony UBP-X700, which chokes on some old DVDs.