Glenn Richards wrote:
Roger Thorpe wrote:

I've been intending to buy a new CD/SACD player for a while. Now that
all the shops want to sell blu-ray they seem to be flogging some high
end DVD machines very cheaply. the Yamaha S2700 has gone down from
£1000 to £300 in a few months. This, I find very tempting... Does
anyone have any experience with it as an audio player?

I have an Arcam DV79 as my main DVD and CD player. The picture it
produces when playing a DVD is one of the best I've ever seen, using it
as a CD player it easily sounds as good as something like Arcam's CD73.

It has HDCD decoding, will play DVD-Audio discs (no SACD but its
replacement the DV139 will) and MP3 CDs.

Normally I just use the digital out to the Arcam AVR250 but when playing
HDCDs or DVD-Audio discs I use the analogue out - and yes, it does sound
far better than a £2-300 DVD Video player.

But only if the listener knows how much it costs.

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Eiron.