Best audiophile multichannel SACD player

Nguyen357,

To follow the logic of your post, you'd have to try every new component in your system. The last sentence of your post is inconsistent with that logic. That's probably not a practical suggestion; I'd guess few suppliers would let you try out a component in your system.

db

The Denon 5910ci is mentioned above. I would guess the posters haven't owned this player. I own one and think it's a wonderful player. But it definitely does not have a "warm, analog-like sound." If you're looking for that, save your time and look elsewhere.

Esoteric is warm?

More like accurate and border-line clinical. But: trust your ears only, and listen to as many as you can in your room/system

Don't discount the Sony players. Keep in mind that they invented and own the SACD chip technology. I'm still using an older Sony 999ES and it's about as musical on SACD as you can get. I've heard very good things about the newer Sony 5400 and also the Krell SACD standard if you can go a little higher.

if you can find a multi channel tube-based player, audition it. most solid state players suffer by trying to do too many things. i owned a marantz and was somewhat disapooinyted with it. the esoteric i heard was on the clinical side. good luck.