Looking for SACD player............

Have you tried the Oppo BDP-105D?  It ought to cost WAY more than it does.  A phenomenal SACD player, the balanced outputs sound wonderful.  Having a hard time finding anything better under $10k.  That player is amazing.

I think SACD is going the way of Betamax, excerpts I taken from the net. And rumors that Sony and Philips are now looking at DXD with is pcm.

"Esoteric has stopped OEM sales of SACD transport because Sony had stopped supply of the chip required to read the DSD data stream from the SACD disc."

Cheers George

Thanks! for the update- wig and nyame.

Does Modwright offer different "mod" packages? I tend to agree that most of you, if not all, goes for the all-out Aural assault package. I would not blame you.

The Audience is a very fine PC. Keep me posted and Happy Listening!

Playback Design has an excellent sounding DAC (Merlot) and a Direct Digital Stream Card Designed for the oppo Box. The oppo is used as a Transport. The card Captues all the data and sends it into the properity link into the Merlot DAC.

I have a Sony SCD-1 with Richard Kern mods gathering dust in storage. If you are interested send me a message.