SACD/CD Drive Mechanism Replacement

To  echo GDHP, it depends upon the brand.  Check with the manufacturer before you purchase used to determine if the are supporting the model and ask what laser and transport was used, proprietary or OEM.  I had a bad experience with a Linn Unidisc 1.1. Great sounding disc player.  Linn used a proprietary laser and when it failed as all lasers eventually do, they informed me they moved onto streaming and do not support disc format players any more.  I will never buy Linn again.  When you spend multiple 5 figures on a product  you (or at least I) expect more than 10 years of support.  Check first as I recommended.   

Sounds like it is time to embrace streaming. 

If you don't have a large collection of SACD/CDs forget it and go with streaming. Qobuz hi res albums are usually as good as SACDs or at least very close.

@jsalerno277  very good point, much appreciated.

@ghdprentice @mazian  You both might be right... that I should consider streaming.  I have to admit, I am very much old school.  Hence my vinyl rig that I love so much.  I don't have the first clue about streaming, so I have a lot to learn about that.  I don't even know where to start.

Best wishes,

Don

I agree if you don’t have collection of cds. And you are willing to learn streaming way to go. In my case I have large collection of cd, sacd, xrcd, so I don’t need streaming. Last axpona 2024 the WiFi at the venue got a problem. Many rooms can’t play music for the attendee. Some who are using turntable are lucky to demo their systems.