Good choice Sidvee. I currently own a Ayon CD-5s (which btw is currently on the 'Gon for sale) which is based on the Skylla 2 dac (essentially a Skylla 2 with a transport). The Skylla 2 dac is one of the most musical & musically accurate sounding dacs i've heard; my previous model CD-5 replaced my reference Vimak DS-1800Mk2 dac. The Skylla 2 can handle high res pcm files up to 24/192, and really more than 95% of your music will be in pcm, so for the money you're doing well. And if you still want to enjoy your sacd's, you could look for a good 2nd hand Sony XA-5400ES with the Modwright Ultimate Truth mod. That is a bargain 2nd hand & a giant killing sacd player.
Playback designs MPD-3 vs Ayon Skylla
I am currently using an Ayon Cd2s, with its digital input as a DAC to play FLAC & Hi-rez files from my Laptop. Am contemplating an upgrade and options available to me are the Playback design MPD3 or the Skylla. Having owned Ayon players (Cd1s and Cd2s) for the past 3 years as my digital sources I am quite comfortable with upgrading blindly to the skylla, but with all the buzz around Playback designs, I am curious. Any thought?
Cheers,
Sid
Cheers,
Sid