Buy a CD now or wait new technology

The Marantz SA-1 SACD/CD player is worth every penny. It plays regular (redbook) CDs better than my currnet $10K Wadia setup. And the SACD format, well.....I am speechless. My Goldmund TT analog setup has competition now.
No I don not work for Marantz, or a dealer that sells Marantz. I just like to pass on what I learn
from experience to my audiophile friends.

hi jd - *my* only point is, that a retail $500 cd-player, when run thru a top-line preamp, sounds as good as the best cd-players out there - up to $3k, anyways. i'm not gonna (can't?) spend any more than that - even used - to buy a digital format, unless it crushes my present playback set-up & has a ton-o-software awailable. when those $2k sacd players can be had used for $1k, & significantly improve upon the sound of redbook cd over my current set-up, then i mite reconsider.

regards, doug s.

ps - forget the *sony* snob-stuff - it can say *yorx*, for all i care, if it sounds good, software's awailable, & i can afford it! :>)

I agree Doug, the pre-amp and for that matter speakers and amp are going to impact the system. My system was at a point that source was my weakest link. Now my pre-amp is the weakest. I plan on bi-amping with a second amp this winter, making my pre even more the weakness. Now if I could just get Mega to sell me his pre real cheap I'd be set. Your point is reight on, all the parts make the whole. J.D.
Sony, it took me alot to get over it too, but I did. A closed mind is a horrible thing to waste!

Yes,sony snobbrery is a lot of whats going on with,the wait and see camp,but it is sacd[dsd] that i am defending not sony.Doug your reason for not buying into sacd is a very good one,but i have been waiting a long time for something that could be compared to analog,without the tracing distorsion,and better bass ect and have seen to many people who have not heard sacd tell others to wait.From now on i will just tell them to go to the hi rez board at the audioasylum or one of the rags that has compared sacd to cd,dvd-a and analog.If people enjoy cd playback from a 69.00 player i could care less,and would not say a thing,but to people with the wait and see attitude, and there are many on this board,give advice about something they have not heard,and compare it to the latest video game craze i get urked,enough already,were my exact thoughts on this.Do audiophools think accuphase would come out with a sacd/cd player if it were not superior to cd? my biggest problem with cd is,the higher resolution my gear got,the less material i could stand to listen to and my cd collection has become almost as limited as the available sacd titles that i have or will purchase.Most of the music i listen to is classic rock or blues,a lot of which was recorded decades ago,and the best cd player in the world will not make up for the recording quality of a lot of these,but the ones i bought on sacd sound good to spectacular through hi rez gear,and when it comes down to it ,this is why i am such an avid sacd fan,as its only about the music if you can stand to listen to it in the first place.