Buy a CD now or wait new technology

Buy a SACD player. SACD is not going away.
The SCD 1 is no slouch at redbook or as transport.
The new digital formats may coexist, but for different audiences. SACD just plain sounds good.
Life is short, your hearing isn't getting any better.

In addition to the thread that Metaphysics identifies there are many others that discuss this topic as well. Some may not be titled as such, but at some point the thread goes into a discussion on this very concern. You will find additional comments in thee threads. Good Luck, Doug

A good 24bit player or DAC is a big improvement over older technology. I am not as sure about things like SACD and DVD-A being here to stay. Three years also HDCD was the thing that was going to make orginary CD players obsolete; now it is almost forgotten because "ordinary" 24 bit players sound as good or better.

Check out a Cambridge Audio cd500se in the interim...maybe not expensive enough....

Worry about today not tomarrows technology. I dont think that either format will survive... The amount of audiophiles compared to the average listner who spent $800.00 on their whole system is so small. they are targeting a very small community of people who will spend $25.00 on a cd. I would never spend that. You must have a big collection of cds now? Well you need to play them on something right? again worry about today and get yourself a great player now and enjoy it. if you buy a good player on the used market and in one year you wnat to change you should only loose a couple bucks. Buy a Mark Levinson 39 and you will never need a better player than that. I own all levinson so I talk from exsperience. good luck