Soney 9000ES as a transport

Let it break in[burn in ]in analog mode for 300 hours and you might find your money better spent on new interconnects.I have to agree on the digital out being first rate on this unit though.If you end up going with an outboard dac i would like to hear about the results.

You guys are really enthusiastic about the 'DVD quality of the 9000ES. Do you all have digital TVs or projectors ? With a 'normal' TV (like my Mitsubishi VS55-705) there should be not much of a difference because the progressive scan cannot work. Re the SACD feature: has noone missed a balanced output from the 9000ES ? The specifications state that it has only RCA audio outputs.

Rogerwalk,i have a cinema series toshiba 35 inch monitor and can see improvements in picture quality over the 7000.These improvements are in color and clarity and are obvious to anyone with a quality monitor.This particular tv was the best out of the box picture sght and video magazine had ever seen two years ago.I imagine any quality monitor from sony xbr,panasonic or several others you would see the differences just using s video or componet video.

Back to audio. Yes you can use it as a transport. It's a much better transport than the Panasonic A7, JVC723GD, and Sony 300. My 22 year old son and I could barely tell the difference between using the digital outs to my Rotel 985 ($2000) or using the 9000ES DAC and going analog into the Rotel. In other words, the Sony DAC is very good and you will need to spend some dough to better it. I've read of other who were pleased with external DAC and the 9000ES. Personally, if you get an internal DAC, get one with upsampling--like the MSB line. I've not read about anyone's experience with the MSB however.

So, how is it compare to SCD-777ES as transport?