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Best sounding universal player (CD, DVD-A, SACD)

Hi all,
I choose the best universal player for CD, DVD-A, SACD. May be read SACD-R on DVD-R.
My list is:
Esoteric SA-60
Esoteric UX-1
Marantz UD9004
Accustic Arts SP1
Bladelius Freja
Ayre C-5xeMP
Meridian 800 DAX (only DVD-Audio)
Meridian 808.1 and 808.2 (CD, DVD-A)

Maybe someone compared? Another players?
knyazhm
knyazhm OP
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Now I use Marantz UD9004 in one system and Bladelius Freja in the second. Marantz UD9004 very musical player, but very slow and noisy, as this Blu-ray. I want to try the Ayre C-5xeMP and the Meridian 808.1 or 2. Starting with the 808.3 was removed support DVD-Audio. I burn DVD-Audio in stereo 24\192, and a 32\192 from HDtracks.

It is also interesting OPPO Modwright without video.

knyazhm OP
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May be Audionet VIP or

Another interesting inexpensive players:

Jolida JD700A

Krell SACD Standard mkIII

Classe CDP-202


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gshepardbuster
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Redbook only with the 808, didn't know they no longer supported DVD-A.  I don't think they ever did SACD.  
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zephyr24069
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A fine list indeed....there is another version of the Esoteric UX-1, the 'Limited' upgrade version (I had the UX-1 then paid Eso for this upgrade) that sounded even better than the stock UX-1.  If you only needed CD and SACD, I would suggest the X-01/Limited as it had 2x the number of DACs per channel (4 versus 2) over the UX-1 and sounded even better....the UX-1 Limited excelled at SACD and DVD-V and DVD-A though its RBCD/XRCD playback were excellent.
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tonykay
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It's hard to pick the "best" universal player. You don't specify your price range so I guess that the sky's the limit. Dollar for dollar, you would be hard pressed to beat the Oppo 105D (it plays everything). If that's too mundane for you, then I guess that dcs stack will look pretty attractive to you. It does to me, too. Your list isn't bad either!
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