Best Option In A CD/SACD Player Under $1,500.00

Tubegroover is spot on. If you can wait for a used ModWright, you will find one of the greatest bargins in all of audio. The stock sony is pretty good on redbook and very good on SACD for the price. I had mine for a year before I sent it to ModWright, so I am very familiar with the stock unit. It came back to me in a completly different league.

I think Lexicon RT-20 is very good for that price. If you can find used. As all these players it benefits from ac isolation/conditioning.

Don't get an oppo. Unless you want a DVD player. Get the best used player you can and spend the full 1500.

I would look at the REGA cd player its a steal at $999.00

Do buy an Oppo , a cheap 100 buck old one and run it with any number of $500 ish DAC's.