Hi
@gibbsy thanks for your information and advice much appreciated buddy. Iv taken some notes down.
To be honest Iv owned my Denon 4308 for around 6 months now and it still surprises me and leaves me with a huge grin on my face even 6 months on . In fact I'm doing something iv never done before I'm acutally keeping and eye out either Avforums or ebay for a 4308 that someone sells for spare parts I'm that impressed with the sheer audio sonics of this thing I willing to spend a little money and buy a 2nd unit for spare parts. I work in the IT and Electronics industry for years so I'm kinda good with my hands like that I absolutely love Electronics and technology as you probably guessed lol.
With regards the SA-15S1, Im an pretty big fan of SACD as a format. I own a pretty fair few SACD'S and DVD-A the later is a different matter anyhow.
I own the entire Genesis Box sets which are by far the finest sounding SACD'S I own. Amongst Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, Jeff Beck, Moody Blues, ELP, The Who and some more.
Its taken me years to try and get a system that acutally sounds like they are all working together rather a AV amp doing its thing and a CD doing it's things ext. So for the first time in aorund 20+ years I own a system where the AV AMP and CD player along with Atlas Titan All CU cable all seem to be working together and dam blood well!. I must as Atlas Cables are an incredible brand and definitely worthy spending money on them..
You have given some realy useful advice.. If I upgrade the AMP to the next stage it will be Denon AVR-A1HD which would be the logical route. I don't realy intend to upgrade the AMP any time soon theirs no reason two. I'm hoping it will give me at least 5-6 Stright use before starting to fail.
I don't intend to realy sell my current Marantz SA-15S1 because the 4308 is doing such an incredible job compared to my previous 2015 X4100W I may now hold out on the CD/SACD player upgrade. However it's definitely given me something to chew on for a while now.
Iv been a Denon /Marantz fan boy for years now ever scene owning my very first 3803 AV AMP. Iv had them all Yamaha, Sony when Sony was Sony QS & ES ranges.
My to go brands which I dought will ever realy change will be Denon /Marantz & Arcam. I'm not saying in anyway their arn't other brands out their that will do equally an awesome job but when your happy with a brand you know them you know their history you get to learn and understand their eothos and electronics over the years you feel very happy and very contempt with staying with those brands.
Your Denon DCD 2500 NE any chance you could upload some pictures to have a look at please. If you don't want to then that's cool anyway. Iv made a note on that model number. Maybe at some point I can try and find a independent hifi dealer like mine Harrow Audio NW London or some others to have a Demo booked take a stack of CDs with me and sit down for a few hours.