"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:44:29 +1000, "Trevor Wilson"
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"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:33:40 +0100, "Keith G"
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"tox" wrote in message
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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.

The Meridian is widely regarded as the state of the art in CD replay.

**That has been my experience.

Your pathetic namecalling is not evidence of a problem with the
Pioneer.

**Lighten up Lord Pinkerton. I'm just having fun with the name.


* 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.

How about dumping your idiotic opinions? Indeed, how about actually
*listening*, instead of just banging on?

**No need. The output stage of the Pie-in-ear is the same as that used in a
thousand other cheap DVD players. They all benefit from rudimentary mods.

And, to answer your next question, I have done the obligatory blind tests.
The results were a very convincing 100%. Not subtle at all.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au