SACD/Redbook one-box solution?

There have been a couple of players that were excellent in both sacd and redbook cd in the past: the classe and accuphase. I heard the musical fidelity tube sacd/cd player at he2003 and was very impressed. if you have $6000+ for a unit, there is nothing that comes close unless you listened to the 2 mentioned above for over twice the price. a new kid in town that does both sacd and sacd very good for little money if the philips dvd963sa. I have the sony 9000es and have listened to the scd-1, 777es, the marantz sa-1 and model 14 sacd/cd players, and the new philips sounds much better in redbook cd playback than any of these mentioned players and does a very good job at sacd also, all for $500.

I agree with Rbstehno on the MF Tri-Vista and the new Accuphase 77. I did not think that the Phillips beat my Sony 777ES in redbook playback in my system anyway.

I finally gave up and purchased a dedicated redbook player. I had a Marantz SA-14 SACD player and the redbook was good, but not great. I wanted great. I now have an Opus 21. You have to spend some bucks to get great playback in both formats. The meitner is supposed to be the king.

John Marks (of Stereophile and audiophile CD producer) uses the Marantz SA-14 SACD player for playback of his CD's.

He is excellent at answering e-amails.

I bought one to replace my older Krell setup. I am thrilled with mine.

Richard