"Öökintölli" wrote in message
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Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current Sony
piece
of junk. I would also consider separate transport and tube processor.


I'd like to thank everyone except Arny Krueger for helping me map out my
choices for a new tube rig. It is really cool to hear from esteemed audio
personalities such as Robert Deutsch and Kalman Rubinson on Usenet. It is
too bad that they don't participate more frequently. But maybe one blessed
day someone will put a cap on Krueger and the audio groups will flourish
again. I pray for it every night.

I'm thinking of retaining my Sony DVP-NS999ES for DVD playback and getting
one of the ModWright Absolute Truth modded Sonys. (Thanks Mr. Deutsch!)

The problem is that I cannot decide whether I should go with the SCD-1 or
the XA-777ES. A friend of mine who has both without any mods says that the
SCD-1 sounds better with CD's but the XA-777ES sounds better with SACD's and
can do multi-channel SACD audio. But I'm not sure if this matters once the
mods are in place. My friend also says that the SCD-1 disc loading is
painfully slow. Anyone have experience with both machines, modded or not?

Thanks!


Öökintölli

ToobZ!