"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:33:40 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"tox" wrote in message
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I own a very old Sony CDP - 990 CD player, which has served me
brilliantly
for more years than I care to remember. However, last year, I visited
Richer
Sounds for one of their Sunday clearance sales and picked up a Sony DVP
S735D for just £30. Looking at the unit, it appeared to had never been
plugged in and the manual and remote were still in their sealed
packaging.
The 735 received rave reviews a few years ago and cost around £500.
After
setting it up, I found the picture quality superb. However, a couple of
nights ago, I happened to drop a CD into the 735 and quite frankly, was
knocked out by the sound quality reproduced by this primarily DVD
player.

Anyone else found DVD players as good or better than CD players for
playing
CD's?

Yep. Plenty of them, in particular the Pioneer DV-575a is very good and
will
play damn near *anything* and is only about a hundred spons.

(HFN doesn't seem to rate it much for CD though..... ;-)

HFN is sadly declined these days. I recently bought a 575A to replace
my trusty 515 for movies, and on CD it's sonically indistinguishable
from the Meridian 588. That's good enough for me..................

**The Meridian must be crap then. I suggest you perform several, simple
actions on your Pie-in-ear.

* Dump the muting transistors. Use nothing, or relays.
* Dump the output ICs and use something decent.
* Dump the series resistors after the output ICs.

Those actions will bring your Pie-in-ear up the level of a Rotel RCD951.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au