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Which Universal Player would you upgrade?

The system here has got somewhat junked up with too many players so I'm seriously considering installing a universal unit in this combined audio-video system. For some time now I've looked down my nose and spurned these "Universal" players as really not being up to scratch when it come to quality audio.

But things are changing, particularly with players that turn off the video circuits while audio only is playing.

But whatever I end up getting will be modded so the problem is to choose something in the price range of the top Denon which handles CD, SACD, DVD-A (yes I regretfully have a few) and DVD-V (including burned -R disks) AND is worth the expense of upgrading.

The top Denon (labelled A1XVA here but different in the US) looks good on paper and handles PAL as well as NTSC. Esoteric have a mind numbing selection of players but the better ones seem very expensive and I'm not considering the P-03 range which got a rave write up in the latest TAS. The Ayre C-5XE reads well although is more expensive than the Denon so I wonder if the same money spent on modding a Denon would not yield even better results. There have been quite a few mods done on Denons and their 3930 appears almost as good as the A1XVA, particularly if modded.

So which Universal player in this sort of price bracket would you consider or have had experience as the best candidate to have modified?

TIA

John

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Topic - Which Universal Player would you upgrade? - John C. - Aussie 19:26:49 04/05/07 (40)
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