Sony SCD-1 is it the best player for the money?

cAMBRIDGE 840 IS GREAT ON RED BOOKS AND BEATS THE FICKLE SCD. I have its cousin xa777es which has 5.1 outputs also. Having recently heard the 840 I can say it best's the Sony's

Thats really surprising, but I wouldn't think it would be close on sacd.

The SCD-1 is a very nice looking unit and built like a tank. That alone gives it some value and the built like a tank thing does translate to some performance gains.

It was a better than average player in its day but it no longer is a real contender and hasn't been for some time. Whether it be SACD or redbook.

-IMO

However, a well-modified SCD-1 approaches current SOTA in both RBCD & SACD.

Mine drove me nuts with disc read problems. It had vsei mods which sounded very good, but it is not worth the headaches, plus parts are getting very hard to find for the transport. The Northstar transport/DAC that I replaced it with sounds even better than the scd-1 with vsei mods.