"Arnold" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

"Arnold" wrote in message
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Don't go the DVD route. If you want pure sound quality, stick to audio
circuitry only.



???

Let me prove my point by quoting Marantz’s Ken Ishiwata from an interview
published by Hi-Fi News.
http://www.hifinews.co.uk/content/interview.html

"HFN: What is your feeling on surround-sound systems? Are people buying
music to hear on surround-sound systems?

KI: ‘The majority of people buying surround-sound is for home cinema,
but people buying home cinema receivers doesn’t always mean that they
buy home cinema speaker kits. Many people only end up with one pair
especially due to space and wiring – all those things are troublesome
for the consumer. How often do the majority of people watch films? They
listen to more music out of such a system than watching films. That’s
also the reason that in the last 18 months many people came back to
two-channel. Maybe you heard about it – the shift of product sales from
multi-channel to, gradually, two-channel is happening. So you’ve started
to see that the two-channel market is much stronger now, which is very
encouraging I have to say. Another point is because of the fact that all
of the American standard holders, like Dolby/DTS, always come up
something new all the time (which is not necessary) those people are
making money out of hardware companies so we have to have all those
logos on receivers and each logo represents how much we are paying
(laughs). The problem is because of those things we have to make
integrated circuits – they caused all those different standards.
Degrading the quality of the music is obvious. So, when you hear just a
simple, straightforward two-channel CD player and amp combination, which
is very low priced, compared to a mid-priced home cinema system playing
music there is no comparison. So, that’s what is happening. I think
people have started to realise what they had before, so they are coming
back’."


"The problem is because of those things we have to make
integrated circuits – they caused all those different standards.

Degrading the quality of the music is obvious."

So you will ask who is Ken Ishiwata?

KEN ISHIWATA’S CAREER
1968 • Came to Europe to work for Pioneer
Early 1970s • Left Pioneer and worked for the company that was military
market representative for Sony, Pioneer, Minolta and Canon.
1975 • Set up business as a fashion photographer
1978 • Joined Marantz as Technical Coordinator
1979 • Took additional job working in speaker development
1980 • Became involved in product development for total Marantz range
1986 • Appointed Marantz Senior Product Development Manager
1996 • Appointed Brand Ambassador for Marantz



Rather consider a SACD player which will play CD's as well. In that
case, you will have to start buying SACD disks of course!

Mind you don't get one that *doesn't* play CDRs....

Yes but you need the new format disks to get the full benefit.



This is a *wind-up* - right...??? :-)