New Lux SACD unit

milpai, I had a Marantz 8001 as a placeholder until I got this new unit. My main system has a Lux D-06, probably 5 years old or so, feeding a Lux 509u integrated feeding Vandersteen 5A speakers, also have a TT that is rarely used. I have been going for simplicity the last years, too many boxes, connections, etc. and have no regrets, I love the sound in each room, both wonderful set ups (I think). I got the D-05u without hearing it, not knowing much about it, however am very familiar with the D-06 so I took the chance, and have the possibility now of using the new player to play back music from a lap top, if I ever decide to go that way. One addition, I have been told that Phillip and On A Higher Note may not be Lux importers any longer, and that makes me sad, he was very helpful to me when I got the units for the main system.

milpai, I am not the kind to sit and come up with a list of features to distinguish, but when I had the 8001 in the system I thought I might have made an error with the speakers and/or amp, but then I put in the lux and its like Art said on the stphile site: detailed without etch, and tonally well-balanced from top to bottom. I heard some harshness and hard top end, brightness, wished I had a tone control to tamp it down, but its not there now, no glare, no hard edges, just a sound I can sit back and listen to and not worry about getting fatigued. As for a comparison of the two units (the 5 and the 6) they are in different systems so can't really say. I do have tone controls in the big system (I know, not an audiophile) and use them with many CDs from the 60s, like any Motown disc, I turn down the top, turn up the bottom, and its night and day.