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The D7000 looks interesting. Unless Denon engineers can get rid of the boominess on the bass and smooth out the sound a bit, I won't be getting one.

Ooooh!!! Congrats! The CD7 is indeed very amazing.

Nice pic Hirsch!! Wonder how much the HP4 are going for these days.

Elephas, Hopefully Mikhail can bring both amps to the meet for someone to inspect and listen for you. I hope at the end you will get perfectly working amps one of these days. Purk

Nice CDP, congrats! Is that a redbook only machine?

Nice!! Any comparison against your trusty 840C?

Thanks for the pics!

My deepest condolences to you and your family.

I'm reserving my impression right now, but both are excellent and in the same class. The Sony SCD-777ES has about 2k in mod from R. Kern and another 3.5k from Modwright. I bought this unit from Tom Hankins and sent it in for a tube rectfied PSU upgrade.

Nice HP-2 Mike!!!

Glad to know that you are doing fine.

According to CNN, the earthquake of 6.1 magnitude occured near his location. Are you safe buddy? http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/29/iceland.earthquake/index.html Purk

I went to the Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden Concert. Amazing shown. Really had a great time. An hour before the concert it was hailing pretty bad and I believe the twister touch down some where close by. Pretty messed up weather this year so far in Atlanta areas.

I will take (another) R10 anyday since I'm happily married.

Around $4500 I believe if not $5000. The HE90 commands about 8 to 8.5k in a used market.

I'm not going to do anything special really. My 3 weeks vacation is coming up in 4 weeks. Beside the expensive ticket of 1.5Ks each , we plan to have a lot of fun spending time with our family back in Thailand and do some traveling.

Congrats!!!!!

I read some where that toslink/optical for USB has less noise in comparison to coaxial output. I'm using the Turtlebeach AudioAdvantage Micro with my DHA3000 and HEV-90 amplifier with great results.

Riceboy, I highly recommend you to pick up the wireworld supernova 5++ to get the most out of your optical connection. I heard a very noticeable improvement over a generic toslink cable. Hope you are liking your new source and the R10. Purk

Have a Happy Birthday young one!

Howdy Dom! Welcome to Headcase!

KG, How does the SCD-1 compared to the Krell SACD standard in both redbook and SACD. I know that the Sony is only very good in redbook, but excellent on SACD playback. How does it measure up to the Krell? Did you get MarkII or Mark III? Thanks

Yes, it is cheaper to repair with Sony, but I don't know if they will take my Modwright Sony SCD-777ES w/ tube output stage in if I need a laser replacement. Plus having to ship external PSU to go along with it and having them throw it away might not be a good idea. I luck out of having a local master technician who can repair highend gears who live just 10 mins away. No more shipping gears to upgrade and repairs!

That's why it make sense to stock some parts for the your units. In my case, Sony usually stop mfg. parts after 10 years. The SCD-1/777ES laser is available for $145, gear for another $130. Wonder if the Cary 306 SACD use the same KSS laser as the SCD-1 or not.

The SCD-1's strenght is in SACD playback, the redbook is only very good at most. However, after clock, caps, and op-amps upgrade, they do sound excellent in redbook too.