CD/SACD Players with volume control under 4K?

Personally, I think you might be better off with a dedicated player, and either use a passive preamp (especially a transformer-based unit), or something like the Ultimate Attenuators from Ric Schultz @ EVS, www.tweakaudio.com.

This allows you to get more selection, and I would think that the volume control on a player may be of lesser quality overall. It would require an extra set of IC's, but that's not a huge deal.

Just my thoughts....as for players overall, there are many to recommend if you wan to go the route above. Mod'd units often give a lot of quality for the money....

Lots 'o' luck,

Todd - chams_uk

Try the Consonance SACD 2.0

Plays Redbook magically and the SACD is noticably better. This is one of my favorite players. Alot of sound for the money.

It has balanced outputs as well as RCAs and a volume control. It uses a single 6H30 tube.

It's $2500

Resolution Audio Opus 21. Lots of info available here on this player.

The Resolution Audio Opus 21 doesn't play SACD, as far as I know.