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SACD certainly bests CD for me.

Just brought home a Sony NS9100ES from The Sony Store for my fisrt listen to SACD (am I what they call a 'late' adopter?). Soft,round,musical-just much more natural & complete than a similar priced CD player. I won't switch because 1.I'm OK with my CD's, and 2. the lack of selection on SACD- but- I would like recommendations on CD players that can provide that SACD fullness-without breaking the bank. Used players are fine. (I really don't understand why there was much discussion about the merit of SACD over CD- it's just so obvious)
psacanli
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nodaker
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I'm going to sell my SACD's and player as my new CD player makes the CD layer sound better than my old player made the SACD's sound. The SACD player was a top of the line Sony but my new player sounds sooo much better and it's only CD...but 5 years of technology improvements makes a difference. If there were actually some titles coming out on SACD that I was interested in I might have stayed with it, but Classical is about all that is being released on the format anymore so what's the point if you don't listen to it? I only have 25 single layer SACD's and am in the process of copying them to CD (analog) with little loss of fidelity actually. The other 75 or so Hybrid SACD's will play fine on my CD player...and I have about 5,000 CD's so why buy a special player for 100 of them? See ya!
timrhu
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My Sony DVP-S9000es died a few months ago. Before it died I would compare it to my trusty Resolution Audio CD-50. The RA playing redbook gave nothing up to the Sony and usually sounded better to me.
Ncarv, how does the Sony repair policy work. I'd love to get mine repaired for $133. Thanks.
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kennyt
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Jim,

Glad to hear you still like the DV-50!

Ken
dbphd
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Timhu,

Google Sony to get their email address for service, then send them an email. They will send you an authorization via email along with shipping details.

My 9000ES has functioned flawlessly since being reurned from Sony. I've read warnings about not Sony not retuning original cartons, so I'd avoid sending it in that, but I have no actual experience, given that I had a parcel service pack the unit.

db
psacanli OP
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Nodaker, Your on the path I want-a CD player that sounds as good as or better than a good SACD played on the NS 9100ES-very adaquate sound. Mind saying what CD player you updated to. After listening to CD through the NS9100ES I notice it's quite veiled through my Spectral/MIT system; such that an HDCD, "Reference Recordings 30th Anniversary Album", played through my modest Toshiba SD 9200 simply "blows it away" musically with clarity, dynamics and timbre that are leagues beyond the newer Sony. I'm surprised that the Sony is so inferior since the Toshiba is 6 years older-but, knowing Sony somewhat, is it possible they just don't put their best effort into 'plain old CD'.
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