I decided to stick with the Toshiba sd900e and say sod-it to the sacd but only cos i heard it wasn't perfect on the 747 (I still want sacd though, but on a dedicated machine) trying to cram to many goodies on one machine just isn't healthy!
My Tosh gives me a truely stunning picture and fantastic sound! I'm just always trying to find that little bit extra.
I took a trip up to Techtronics a few days ago (it's well in the sticks!) and demo'd the Sony 9000es which was pretty good looked smart and as normal had an easy and colourful menu navigation and the 939 and too be honest I was not too impressed with the 939. The pic wasn't bad at all but it wasn't fantastic and the machine itself (mechanicly) felt cheap n nasty, like a Matsui unit or something. When the disc tray spat out at me I just though "Matsui". Sorry!
My only problem is if I buy a dedicated SACD player I need another 6 phono inputs which the Denon 3802 or any other unit I know of, does not have if I want multi-channel sound. Thats where the 747 is a winner I guess. God Damn........
I don't like making compromises. As for software, there are currently around 70 dvd-audio titles of any good available and over 200 SACD titles, what with Sony having loads of sister companies in the music world and them all clubbing together to re-release cd's in the new format, I think they may have the advantage here this time. SACD
is superior to dvd-audio whether you like it or not. For titles out on all new formats at ;-
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KIT
Pioneer 503HDE plasma screen
Toshiba sd900e dvd player
Denon 3802 receiver
KEF 5002 sub/sat 6.2 (twin subs/centre rear)
ITV digital (for what its worth!)
Chord interconnects
QED Silver Ann. speaker cable