Universal Players vs. Dedicated CD/SACD Players

tonykay-

Have you owned the Elite BDP-09 since new? What year did you buy it?

Got my Cipher....unfreakin believable!!  Whole other realm of musical enjoyment.  So lifelike it's spooky!  Purchased it from Steve at Highperformancestereo for $7999.  Brand new and full 5 year warranty.  Steve has been a certified Krell dealer for 20+years.

Congratulations on the Cipher and smokin' deal, dave_b.  I look forward to getting updates as you break it in.

jafant, I ran across this today and thought it might be of interest (scroll down to the second item): http://www.analogshop.com/index.php/demo-used

I am not affiliated with the sale or store in any way.

Jafant,

No, I bought the Pioneer BDP09 used several years ago from a dentist in Connecticut. It worked great with DVDs, and I only used it recently for Blu-Ray and found it wouldn't play them. Remembering that the dentist had included about six discs, which he explained were "firmware updates", I called Pioneer and they sent me the latest firmware update disc (without charge). Now, it works great but the idea of having to regularly update the player seems ridiculous to me. I could understand if each update improved the performance, but in the case of the BDP09, it simply refused to play Blu-Ray until the update was complete. A beautiful player though!