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Is it worth buying a seperate cd player or just use my dvd player? (1 Viewer)

Brett DiMichele

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My opinion on this matter is as such. When you buy a DVD

player you are buying it for the quality playback of DVD's

and the manufacturers know this. They spend more time and

more money on the DVD side of things both hardware and software

wise.

I had a Sony DVP S-360 and I was using it as a CD Player and

it was absolutely atrocious, Music would distort even at low

volumes. The reason was that the S360 had one stinking laser

that was used for both DVD and CD. DVD's need a stronger

laser to permeate through multiple layers of the DVD and I

beleive when you play a CD with that same laser reading the

disk you get shrill playback.

I recently upgraded to Panasonic's new CV51 5 Disk Carousel

which handles CD,DVD,VDISK,MP3,CD-R and CD-RW and this particular

unit uses 2 seperate dedicated lasers, one for DVD only and

the other for CD Audio formats only. The playback of this

player is very good for an all in one unit. But even still

I have my doubts that you can ever compare a sub $300.00

all in one player to a dedicated $800+ CD/DVD-A or CD/SACD

Player. The extra cash you pay for the latter players most

definately translates into better D/A's and probably even

better optics and PCB's.
 

Evan S

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Brett, as I said earlier in this thread, I have the same Sony DVD unit you have (the 360) and I couldn't agree more. The sound would scare small children. I think the US forces are bringing over about 50,000 Sony 360's to use on Bin Laden to force him to divulge the expanse of his network when they finally catch the bastard. I wouldn't play a CD on that thing for my worst enemy.
 
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John Morris

Well, here is my 2C.

I bought the RS switch boxes at the recommendation of Keith but never tried them. I will be returning them tomorrow along with other RS stuff to buy my son a Jimmy Neutron Orb. However, I am not returning them due to sound problems I encountered with them. Instead, I just decided to go with my SACD alone for 5.1 music instead of both SACD and DVD-A. Utilizing both would require me to buy a very long set of component cables for my DVD and another set of 6 audio interconnects. At this time, I just don't want to spend that much more money. In fact, although I never tried using them, I was told by a few high end design friends, that those RS switchers are mechanical and should not degrade the signal any more than that of a usual RCA connector. Regardless, Jimmy Neutron here I come....
 

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