"James Perrett" wrote


At the low end of the market there are differences in sound quality
because manufacturers have to make compromises in order to bring the price
down to an acceptable level. The Pioneer that Stewart mentions is actually
a DVD-A/SACD/DVD/CD player so the convertors will have been designed to
work at a greater bit depth and sampling rate than a typical CD player -
hence they should easily produce a decent reproduction with the less
demanding CD format.

I bought a Pioneer a few months ago after reading about it here and, while
I haven't yet tried it up against my studio system, it does sound good in
the living room.


Same here - I have the same Pioneer DVD-575a and have never got round to
putting it on to my system yet (too much wire-pulling and no ideal
opportunity yet) but what CDs I have played have always sounded as good as
anything else I've heard where it is now (AV setup)!!