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New DAC for Sony SCD-777ES SACD player.?

I still love my Richard Kern modified Sony SACD player. In my ears better than Oppo UDP-205 that I bought to replace it with.  It is now almost 20 years since these came out.
Like many of these units, the SACD laser is not working as well. But CD is still flawless.
How about buying a DAC for Redbook?

Would a Schiit, Benchmark, Mytek, iFi, or Ayre make a real difference.

 

(The musical experience from my analog turntable set up is still much superior.)

Thank you.
dcaudio
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dcaudio
Like many of these units, the SACD laser is not working as well.
It uses a Sony KHM-230AAA laser still available still cheap, if your mechanically minded should be about 1hrs work to put in. Buying the whole mech/laser is far easier to put in than just the laser.
https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Sony+KHM-230AAA&_sacat=0&rt=nc&LH_...
As far as a dac goes, to me only R2R dacs for Redbook, and for reasonable priced one Soekris has good ones and know what he's doing with R2R. The pic for me is the 1541.
http://www.soekris.dk/
 
Cheers George
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georgehifi

if you have a line on a Sony KSS-272A laser, contact me.

Happy Listening!
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georgehifi

if you have a line on a Sony KSS-272A laser, contact me.

Happy Listening!
Might as well ask me for rocking horse shit. They are about as impossible as the Sony BU-1E laser.

Cheers George
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jafant

Short answer to your question, no leads on that one, just as rare as the Sony BU-1E

I answered your question, but it got removed.

By "some pleb" who thought that me saying "those lasers are as rare as rocking horse ****" was offensive and objected to it and got it removed. What a putz, or maybe he has a thing for Rocking Horses who knows

Definition of ’pleb’
If someone refers to people as plebs, they mean they are of a low social class or do not appreciate culture. [British, informal, disapproval]
Definition of Putz
A stupid fellow, a fool, a jerk;

Cheers George
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Cheer up...he's not the only member who has posts removed.
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