Sathyan
Second Unit
- Joined
- Jun 17, 2002
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- 298
My five disc CD changer (a Sony) ate another CD today. I'm getting a little annoyed by this. Time to upgrade!
I'm looking for a single-disc multiformat CD player. It should play the following: CD-DA, XRCD, HDCD, SACD, DVD-A, and DTS CD's (receiver doing the decoding) using pressed media and CDR's. I have far more regular CD's than anything else so redbook performance is very important. I also want HDCD decoding which I don't see on any of the universals (other than the withdrawn Apex). If I have to choose between SACD and DVDA, I choose SACD as the catalogue is more interesting to me and I can get multichannel playback from DVDA from the DTS track on a regular DVD player.
I don't care about video (DVDV, VCD, SVCD) as I have a player for that, or compressed formats (MP3, WMA).
Is DSD to PCM conversion (like the new Pioneer will do) transparent?
-Sathyan
See link for system.
NP Ormandy - Fireworks! (LP)
I'm looking for a single-disc multiformat CD player. It should play the following: CD-DA, XRCD, HDCD, SACD, DVD-A, and DTS CD's (receiver doing the decoding) using pressed media and CDR's. I have far more regular CD's than anything else so redbook performance is very important. I also want HDCD decoding which I don't see on any of the universals (other than the withdrawn Apex). If I have to choose between SACD and DVDA, I choose SACD as the catalogue is more interesting to me and I can get multichannel playback from DVDA from the DTS track on a regular DVD player.
I don't care about video (DVDV, VCD, SVCD) as I have a player for that, or compressed formats (MP3, WMA).
Is DSD to PCM conversion (like the new Pioneer will do) transparent?
-Sathyan
See link for system.
NP Ormandy - Fireworks! (LP)