The XA9000ES's are hitting the Classifieds Rapidly

Rex,

I see where you are coming from and I have seen the threads you mentioned. I guess I was more surprised at the attractive the price the players were selling for and just associated it with the format. For $1350.00 I may just buy one for a transport.. Thanks for expanding on your point...

Chris

Chris I check your system,you do listen to Rock n Roll
I dont think you need SACD.I dont think you are sold
with SACD.Ask Markr from Illinois,I think He is your
friend.He own a SonyMod9000es by Modwright.He can tell
you, how good is SACD, thats why I always look who is
posting.And for the most part I check their system,before
I will agree.You do have a good set up though.Honestly
you did not experience the best of SACD.The audiophile
who are selling their XA9000ES probably are not sold
either.My 9000esDVP did notsound spectacular untilModwright
did the modification.

Jactoy,

You are probably correct. What I listen too is not widely available on SACD. On SACD I had Ryan Adams, Train, The Police, Roger Waters, Peter Gabriel, Norah Jones, and few other titles. The majority of those discs did yield an audible improvement over my redbook versions of those titles. However a few of them did not.

I have no doubt of the format's strengths. I am just always interested in which direction fellow audio hobbyist are going.. Thanks for your post!

Chris

Chris I agree.I only clarified it,not to scare someone
who want to try SACD,I do have a good collection though.
SACD can stop now, I am ok with it.My suggestion is to
really appreciate SACD get a good SACD player.Thanks

Yeah, but DVP-S9000ES ans SCD-XA9000ES are completely different machines. The S9000ES uses the last Sony Bitstream DACs (the so called VC24+), while the XA9000ES uses re-labeled Burr-Brown DAC with "night and day" internal topology.

Thought you may want to know.

I am sure Dan Wright of Modwright can do miracles with both uints though.

Regards,
Alex