Have Good, Current DAC - Would A Sony DVP-S9000ES Work As A Quality Transport?

[Slapshot]

I really need a quality source suddenly, due to a change in situations. I have an excellent Bryston BDA-1 DAC available, and free access to a mint condition Sony DVP-9000ES DCD/CD/SACD player, that was used only a 3-4 hours a week, for a year before being stored.

These very well made units (28 pounds, all copper chassis, etc.) were modded heavily, and expensively, by Modwright, and also Vacuum State Electronics some years ago, so I suspect the transport must be good. I would appreciate your thoughts on whether this would result in high quality sound. Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Alternatively, I could buy a transport for under $1k, new, or used (current budget constraints), but cannot find any that could play SACD's, which is necessary. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[j_garcia]

If you have a good DAC then theoretically all you need is anything that works IMO at that point.

 

[ImcLoud]

I agree with J, either one or the other, either a good external dac with any player {since you will be bypassing the dac in your player} or a really good player with a nice internal dac...

 

[sterling shoote]

I really need a quality source suddenly, due to a change in situations. I have an excellent Bryston BDA-1 DAC available, and free access to a mint condition Sony DVP-9000ES DCD/CD/SACD player, that was used only a 3-4 hours a week, for a year before being stored.

These very well made units (28 pounds, all copper chassis, etc.) were modded heavily, and expensively, by Modwright, and also Vacuum State Electronics some years ago, so I suspect the transport must be good. I would appreciate your thoughts on whether this would result in high quality sound. Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Alternatively, I could buy a transport for under $1k, new, or used (current budget constraints), but cannot find any that could play SACD's, which is necessary. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I own a DVP-S9000ES. I like it. Of course, playing SACD's, you will not be sending digital out so a DAC is moot, other than for CD's if you wish.

 

[Slapshot]

I own a DVP-S9000ES. I like it. Of course, playing SACD's, you will not be sending digital out so a DAC is moot, other than for CD's if you wish.

Exact right, Sterling. While SACD playback is important to me, I have approximately 3000 cds, so the quality of cd playback is paramount. That's why I will be using my Bryston BDA-1 DAC connected to the transport.

 

[j_garcia]

I own a DVP-S9000ES. I like it. Of course, playing SACD's, you will not be sending digital out so a DAC is moot, other than for CD's if you wish.

Except that ALL Sony players lack DVD-A capability, so they are moot as well Spending $1k on something to be a transport is pointless, especially with a nice DAC. Get any decent, average player that has a solid tray and good reliability and you're done. If you want SACD and DVD-A, get an Oppo.

 

[sterling shoote]

Except that ALL Sony players lack DVD-A capability, so they are moot as well Spending $1k on something to be a transport is pointless, especially with a nice DAC. Get any decent, average player that has a solid tray and good reliability and you're done. If you want SACD and DVD-A, get an Oppo.

Did I miss something, I thought the OP can get a DVP-S9000ES for free.

 

[mtrycrafts]

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These very well made units (28 pounds, all copper chassis, etc.) were modded heavily, and expensively, by Modwright, and also Vacuum State Electronics some years ago,...

Well, I would not tough any component that was modded but that is me. How do you know that the modding didn't mess something up? Because others have used those modders is not a guarantee that there was a design issue to begin with or that the change improved anything and perhaps made it worse.

 

[Slapshot]

Did I miss something, I thought the OP can get a DVP-S9000ES for free.

Correct again, Sterling. And I don't even own a DVD-A disc, no idea where that post came from! Likewise, the unit available to me has never been modded.

 

[PENG]

Mtrycrafts is not alone, I also would not buy anything mod by a 3 rd party. As a transport though and if it is free, why not? I find that if you need sound quality, focus on the source media first as the recording, mastering of the music really determines the end results in terms of sound quality, assuming we have gone pass the entry level electronics. If the source is good, I don't believe you can do better, say going from a $500 DAC to a $5000 DAC. Heck I can't even say with certainty that my Oppo 105 sound better than my $190 matchbox DAC.

 

[j_garcia]

Sorry, I misunderstood the free part. I thought you were saying the 9000 would be modded after the fact, but you were talking about the DAC. For FREE, no doubt the 9000 will work as a transport.

The DVD-A portion came from another thread with Sterling who thought SACD was the only hi-rez multichannel option and Sony does not support it, so none of their players can play them. The point being a universal player that does, does not limit you to SACD only.

SACD being the requirement, I'd just get an Oppo. Yamaha has a current player with SACD capabilty as well I believe.