Current Universal Players

There's also the Sony UBP-X700 and what might be the Oppo-killer: Reavon UBR-X110 at $999. If you want to listen to DSD off SACDs, and hi-res PCM off other discs through an external DAC, then you need a GeerFab Audio D.BOB www.geerfabaudio.com, available at the major US dealers. I invented it because I was dissatisfied with the internal DACs of players.

Look for a used Marantz UD7006 or UD5007 Universal player, they pretty much play every format you mentioned, and then some.  I have both in different systems and very happy that I decided to purchase them.before being discontinued. 

I love HDCDs...far more than SACDs....but nothing decodes them anymore.

Keep your 205 and buy a great red book dac. The sound of red book will be so far superior what you have, my guess is you will forget SACD.  But you will still have the ability to play any of those discs. There are plenty of threads on Rockna, Holo, Denafrips.  Spend 5k or more and the upgrade will be amazing IMO.  

@8th-note 

@secretguy 

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High Definition Compatible Digital

Media type	Optical disc
Capacity	Typically up to 700 MB
Read mechanism	780 nm wavelength semiconductor laser
Developed by	Pacific MicrosonicsInc./Microsoft
Usage	Audio storage
Extended from	Red Book Compact disc
Released	1995; 27 years ago High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD) is a proprietary audio encode-decode process that claims to provide increased dynamic range over that of standard Compact Disc Digital Audio, while retaining backward compatibility with existing compact disc players.