Transport or player?

Currently have a Parasound/CEC c-bd 2000 transport feeding into a Parasound AVC-2500 processor(DAC is actually very good!) via a AES/EBU cable. Combination has worked well for several years, but the laser is out in the transport. I've tried using the Pansonic H2000 dvd player as a transport, but it's not even close to music. Should I fix the transport for $200-$300? Or get the Sony XA5400es sacd player as I have quite a few sacd's that I've been playing on a Sony 775. Budget is about $1300. How would the XA5400ES compare to the Parasound(transport and dac) setup on redbook? I can hook up a cd player to the 5.1 inputs on the processor and bypass the dacs in the processor. Thanks for the advice!