SCD-1 vs DVP-S9000ES

Caa: I compared 777Es and 9000es by memory. I owned 777es for two months and then sold it. Many people do not trust aural memory. Therefore, you can easily distrust results of my observation, and it would be very logical. However, I am musician by education (classic piano) and life-long attendee of live concerts. I rarely compare one piece of equipment with other directly. I used to compare to my aural memory of the sound of acoustic instruments.AND I trust my ears. The problem that both 777es and 9000es has each set of shortcomings (defferent ones) needed to be corrected, most desirably by modification of their respective analog stages. - Simon
Gmorris: I fully accept "the reality that it (9000es) was not designed to compete with SCD-1, irrespective of what you would want to believe?". however, then I hear music, the goals of specific equipment design, you so eloquently desribed above, does not interfere with my sub-cognitive acceptance of the fidelity (to acoustic instuments) of the sound. Regarding your suggestion "Why don't you just enjoy your S9000ES..." I can't; its being upgraded to correct its set of shortcoming. Otherwise you are absolutely right - Simon

robert harley votes for sacd and if you own a 9000es his reveiw will make your day,it is in the new perfect vision and it is a glowing reveiw to say the least.

I qwn a 9000 and would like to improve the audio side. Where do i send it, what will they do to it{in simple terms please!}and how much will it cost?

Big companies like sony have resources to design good players and they do want them to do well. They also like to make a profit. If panasonic capacitors and carbon fibre resistors sound 75% as good as Blackgate and Vishay which ones do you think they will use? Product cost is usally a multiple of parts cost so the lower the parts cost the more the profit. Of course after market mods can improve sound.