SACD player that will read the SACD layer

...as a P.S., I do have a laser cleaning disc, but not sure if it cleans the SACD laser?

I would think the cleaning disc would work, can't hurt to try. As far a new player what is your budget?

Theo, Likely 500 to 1500 or maybe buy and outboard DAC.

If you are playing actual SACD disk's, you'll probably have to go with a 1 box player. There are very few separates, and all the ones I know of are very expensive. The Marantz SACD players are very popular in your price range. I have a Sony 9000ES. Its a decent player stock, but its a very popular player to mod. I know the Oppo is good, but if you just need to play CD/SACD, you'll end up paying for a lot of features you won't be using.

I had my Marantz SA8005 for about 1.5 years now and it had never missed an scad disk. It's a slower worker, sometimes taking up to 10 seconds to recognize the sacd but had never missed it.