New Lux SACD unit

rpeluso,
I used to own the Marantz SA8260 for a number of years and am familiar with the Marantz house sound. Can you please compare and contrast the Marantz 8001 Vs the 2 Luxmans? What about the differences between the 2 Luxmans? The D-06 seems to be much more pricier piece of equipment.
BTW, it looks like you have a nice setup. You should post some pics.

@randyhat 
embarrassed to admit that I also own the Sony XA 5400 ES in a different system, have wondered the same, and haven't tried it.  The problem is that since I first created the system with the Sony, which sits in a surround system in our main living room system, which I rarely use, and we have created built ins to house the components.  I use a professional installer for that system and it's now difficult to reach behind AVR and disconnect anything.  I had back surgery a few months ago and the contortions required to do this just aren't worth it.  I've been thinking about replacing the 5400 and the BRP in that system with one box and selling off the 5400, but as it seems that Uncle Sam is going to dispose of my disposable income before I could dispose of it this year, this project will have to wait.
  However, to answer your question, I strongly suspect the 5400 DSD will play through the Bryston.

milpai, I am not the kind to sit and come up with a list of features to distinguish, but when I had the 8001 in the system I thought I might have made an error with the speakers and/or amp, but then I put in the lux and its like Art said on the stphile site: detailed without etch, and tonally well-balanced from top to bottom. I heard some harshness and hard top end, brightness, wished I had a tone control to tamp it down, but its not there now, no glare, no hard edges, just a sound I can sit back and listen to and not worry about getting fatigued. As for a comparison of the two units (the 5 and the 6) they are in different systems so can't really say. I do have tone controls in the big system (I know, not an audiophile) and use them with many CDs from the 60s, like any Motown disc, I turn down the top, turn up the bottom, and its night and day.