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Cheap SACD Player?

Hello Everyone,
There are several CD's that my wife wants which are available in non-hybrid SACD, so they will not play in my red book CD player. I plan on purchaseing a high end SACD system in approximately a year, but she wants these disks now. I do not wish to purchase any more red book CD's that are now available in SACD. As a result, I am looking for recommendations for cheap SACD players that will have acceptable sound, until I can purchase a higher end SACD player. Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,
Dennis
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bigtee
803 posts
 
If you are looking to get into SACD on the cheap, find you a Sony 9000es player on the net for about $500. It offers as good a SACD sound as many much more expensive players.
Yes, it is a DVD player also BUT it is built like a tank, offers just exceptional SACD playback and can be had fairly cheap.
I own it and have had the Sony xa777es in the past. The 777 plays multiple formats but on regular SACD 2 channel, the 9000 is every bit as good. In someways, better. In regular CD, it's ok. Warm sounding but certainly not the last word in resolution. SACD, that's on another level.
arni
313 posts
 
Did you say cheap? The Samsung HD 841 universal player (also branded as a Toshiba 4960)was offered for modification by both RAM and EVS when still in production. There are some rave reviews/discussions on audio asylum. In stock form this player is still pretty good too, and you can't loose checking it out on eBay for less than $70!! Now that's cheap.
bigtee
803 posts
 
Yeh, I have one of the Samsung's and it ain't bad! Forgot I even had the thing.
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