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Best used transport for CD, SACD, DVDA

Fellow listeners,
I am looking to upgrade my digital source from an Arcam CD37. I'd like to experience SACD and DVDA, and am not yet ready to move to a server and digitize my complete library of CDs. The Arcam unit is a good one, but I haven't done a lot of comparative listening, so I don't know from experience.
If you have experience with the player but have acquired a new unit to handle SACDs, or otherwise useful info, I'd like to hear from you. I see a lot of units on sale here, but I don't really want to spend over $1000 for a piece of hardware that will be obsolete in my environment soon enough.

Thx
Chuck
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doggiehowser
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It seems that most DVDAs are not copy protected so they can output full resolution stereo over SPDIF.

I am feeding the optical output from my Oppo 95 Universal player to my EMM Labs XDS1 optical input to get the benefit of the XDS1 DAC.

Pretty nifty.

If you are looking for a transport and an external DAC for SACD and DVDA, the only affordable way I know how is to use an HDMI Universal Player/AVR setup

I'd recommend using an AVR and player that supports ARC that has a way to synchronise the clocks between the AVR and the player. Sony calls their system HATS, and Pioneer, PQLS. I use Denon's DenonLink4.
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