Just for obtaining some informations about availability of sacd drive mechanism of a few top players.
I’m looking for a sacd player to find in the used market that will replace my Lindemann 822, still very good but clearly lower in overall quality towards the top contenders.
My interest goes towards Emm Labs (CDSA-SE) or eventually the more expensive XDS1V1 and again the appreciated Playback MPS-5. In the second row I’ve also considered two Wadia models (581se or 781).
After a first looking in the web it seems that many drive mechanism are not available anymore from the manufacturers.
About EMM Labs I supposed that this occur not only for the Philips drive used in the first series of CDSA player; but also for the so-called “German drive” adopted in CDSA-SE; for me this is simply unacceptable; we’re not dealing in a cheap basic player !
Again... I read in the web that Esoteric will not supply in the future to third parts their mechanism (Playback uses Esoteric if I'm not wrong...).
My only goal is to avoid buying an used player in the eventuality of failure will become not-repairable..
Who in the web have some suggestions or updating to let me know?
Thanksss in advance
Marco
I’m looking for a sacd player to find in the used market that will replace my Lindemann 822, still very good but clearly lower in overall quality towards the top contenders.
My interest goes towards Emm Labs (CDSA-SE) or eventually the more expensive XDS1V1 and again the appreciated Playback MPS-5. In the second row I’ve also considered two Wadia models (581se or 781).
After a first looking in the web it seems that many drive mechanism are not available anymore from the manufacturers.
About EMM Labs I supposed that this occur not only for the Philips drive used in the first series of CDSA player; but also for the so-called “German drive” adopted in CDSA-SE; for me this is simply unacceptable; we’re not dealing in a cheap basic player !
Again... I read in the web that Esoteric will not supply in the future to third parts their mechanism (Playback uses Esoteric if I'm not wrong...).
My only goal is to avoid buying an used player in the eventuality of failure will become not-repairable..
Who in the web have some suggestions or updating to let me know?
Thanksss in advance
Marco