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Choosing a CD or SACD player over my Oppo BDP 95

Greetings! This is a branch off of an earlier thread. I am considering an dedicated cd and/or sacd player as un upgrade over my Oppo BDP 95 universal player. Consensus seems to be that this will provide "better" red book playback which is 95% of my listening. As it is nearly impossible to do live listening comparisons where I live, I ask my fellow ’Goners for their input and suggestions. My system consists of said Oppo, Magnepan .7’s and Parasound Halo integrated.
Thanks!
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When I used analog XLR from my Oppo 105 and Sony 5400ES, I preferred the sound with the Sony, especially for SACD.  Now I use HDMI from both, and a Bryston SP3 does the analog processing.  I'll be moving the Sony to a second setup that will use its analog XLR.

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jafant,

The Bryston SP3 does have XLR input capability, but I use HDMI from the Oppo and Sony disc players because I think the analog processing of the SP3 is superior.  Analog from my Ayre C-5xeMP goes through a Parasound JC 2 BP, and I'm really happy with the sound so I haven't tried XLR from the Ayre through the SP3.  Front LR from the SP3 is passed through the JC 2 BP to access a pair of JC 1 mono blocks.

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