Looking for SACD player............


I’m replacing my Marantz SA8100. Looking at new Marantz SA8500. Anything else new or used  in that price range I should be looking at? Thanks.
tpreaves
Thanks to the accolades many of you had for Modwright and a lot of reading about their mods., I sent my Marantz SA8005 away. Dan and Kristen were great to communicate with via email. They answered within a couple minutes on more than one occasion. Listening to vinyl for a few weeks (not at all a bad thing). Enjoying a Japanese pressing of the original Dire Straits effort. Great tunes with great sound.

Calling Parts Connexion tomorrow for a Hifi-tuning silver star 3A Slo Blo fuse to put in the 9.0 tube power supply. Tough to pass up on such good fuses being offered at 60% off! I’ll install that when my unit gets here around the end of January.

Tpreaves - Hope you are enjoying your modified Marantz.

Thanks to everyone for sharing your modification experiences in this thread.

Would anyone care to recommend a reasonably priced power cord for the Modwright 9.0 outboard power supply?

During the last decade or so I owned many of the usual suspects, some a couple times over, but havent had another SONY. Not for any bad experience. Marantz and Oppo are nice, and handful of Pioneers. Anyone care to trade their SCD-XA5400ES for a 105 to try some apples from another cart. Perhaps not. The Sony's are intriguing.  

@ Hifiman

I just sold a Modwright oppo 105d with the 9.9 power supply which I am sure is very similar. Forget the power cord. Swap out the rectifier tube with Mullard or a Phillips( for 50 bucks you can get a cover with a hole for the larger tubes) Bass response will really improve. I also had a Synergistic Red fuse in the PS and got a slight bump in resolution. I use upgraded PC also but your biggest bang is upgrading the rectifier tube.

good luck!!