New format players the future?

To further confuse this thread : How do these new format players perform as transports for redbook cd's? I ask this as I know BC has a collection of hot rodded dac gear.

Lorne, I read your comments above and agree with your feelings on SACD to a degree. I'm very confused by your comments on DVD. From the final few paragraphs I either mis-understood or your confusing DVD-V and DVD-A. A Pioneer DVD player that also plays redbook and SACD is only a DVD-V player. DVD-A is a different format that is only able to be played back on a DVD-A player. There are less than 100 titles out on DVD-A, are you sure you ment to include DVD-A? or was it DVD as we've known it for years you were talking about?

This is the exact reason I feel DVD-A is doomed, the confusion is constant. SACD is new we all understand that. DVD, DVD-V, DVD-A what next DVD-VD? This would be a sextually transmitted illness contracted between HT and audio people.

Hi JD (good to see U!) -- SACD's challenge is that DVD-V+SACD+Redbook players prevail as standard (my opinion). Otherwise, how can the (mass) marketplace sustain the presently confusing plethora of multi-players. In the interim, good redbook playback coupled with SACD is a viable option for music(audio)-philes -- Lorne has many a (similar) point there...

Mcdonjil: I heard Lorne's 777 (unmodded, purportedly broken in, from Sony) playing redbook into a Burmester system. Bouncy, dynamic sound; tonality was better to my ears on jazz/blues than classical. This is a sound I have associated with the few Sony trans's I have experienced -- but remember the Burmesters in the queue (cable was valhalla).

Cheers!