I did try the ub820, And the player was just way too loud I could hear the disk spinning on quiet parts during movies because the player is only 8 feet away from where I sit, It just ruined the whole movie viewing experience for me and the ub820 still cause the issue for me were it would just freeze in the middle of the movie,and the XLR inputs are a nice touch because I do have XLR inputs on my yamaha ht preamp. I mean I've tried severely scratched up disks in the UB 9000 and it read it no problem So I think that disk drive In the 9000 is steps above And the ub 820 just looked cheap The LG player which was 200 at the time actually looked a better build quality than the UB820. I just hate the way manufacturers are making expensive products which the UB820 is a $600 player Look so cheap by using plastic and smoked plastic as the cover, And the remote on the 820 sucked. Everything else I have is that nice expensive looking metal my tape back the preempt the amps and even the power center and then you have this cheap looking Blu-Ray player did not fit in it at all. But the final nail was the disk drive being loud and still having the freezing issues.