Thanks for the energetic report! You raised my interest level, for sure!

I have been enjoying the 5400 for over 6 months now and compared it to an Ayre that a friend has with his system and he too was so blown away that he bought one on the spot and now listens to it regularly as his primary CD player. I have really started to notice just how warm and detailed my jazz collection is with Sony and I am damn glad that I got this because of the review on Stereophile

Doing a search it looks like it may (could be very wrong) be using TI/Burr-Brown 24/192 PCM1796 DAC.
Would be interesting to see if the sonic qualities that is loved with this player is mostly due to the DAC, or a combination of that and the engineering/components.

Same DAC looks to be going into the Denon Universal Blu Ray player DBP-4010UDCI.
Also might be in quite a few AV receivers such as Onkyo.

Cheers
Orb

I read an interesting review of the player over here in the UK, one thing that seems to really stand out is the SACD/HATS system; its jitter measurements in Hifinews is rather stunning to say the least.

Just curious, are you using your player in a system where you are making use of the HATS?

Also looks like other manufacturers may be looking to license the technology.

Thanks
Orb

How can you say that its the best player under $10,000 ?

Thats such a sweeping comment its dumb, does that mean there are players that are $10,005 that are better ?

I would say its enthusiasm, take it for what it is.
And think about it, without enthusiasm every day would be a like a bleak Monday

Cheers
Orb