I auditioned a DV137 shortly after it was released last year. I was interested in a universal player that was SACD-capable. The multichannel SACD failed almost immediately and within days Arcam was saying that they were no longer supporting multichannel SACD on this player. I would have been steaming if I'd bought it only to find out that it wasn't all that "universal".
Here's a quote from Arcam:
"In order to optimise performance on DVD and CD playback we have decided to remove multi channel SACD playback from the DV137. We found distortion on a number of multi channel SACDs which requires further investigation but in the meantime we think it sensible to delete this feature. We hope to be able to reintroduce this later however it is impossible to give a cast iron promise on this. The DV137 can still play stereo SACDs." Regards, Andrew Dutton, Engineering Manager. ARCAM
and the link for details
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-85627.html
That ended my interest in the unit.
Here's a quote from Arcam:
"In order to optimise performance on DVD and CD playback we have decided to remove multi channel SACD playback from the DV137. We found distortion on a number of multi channel SACDs which requires further investigation but in the meantime we think it sensible to delete this feature. We hope to be able to reintroduce this later however it is impossible to give a cast iron promise on this. The DV137 can still play stereo SACDs." Regards, Andrew Dutton, Engineering Manager. ARCAM
and the link for details
http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-85627.html
That ended my interest in the unit.