In article , KotF
wrote:
Ian Bell wrote:
KotF wrote:

I recently bought a Daewoo 9000S5 DVD player - had some good reviews
and was cheap! Two days later my Phillips CD player (bought in 1987)
died - so I tried to hook up the DVD in its place. (Simple L/R Stereo
out to the amp). The sound quality is awful! I've played around with
the menus - setting SPDIF (?) to off or PCM (?) improves things but
it still sounds bad.

I assume the L/R connection you made is analogue. In which case
changing SPDIF config should make no difference.

It's marked as stereo L & R - standard phono type connectors. I wouldn't
have expected the SPDIF setting to affect this either, yet it
undoubtedly does. Would that indicate cheap rubbish or faulty product?

I don't know anything about the player so can only guess. However i wonder
if selecting S/PDIF or stream digital ouput may alter the way the player
gets L/R 'stereo' from surround-sound tracks?

FWIW when I play CDs on my DVD player they do tend to come out louder than
many DVDs, even via the S/PDIF output into a stereo DAC. I have assumed
this was simply that the DVD's I have tend to be recorded at lower level
w.r.t. to full-belt than CDs. No signs of distortion with CDs in general,
but with some the player is clearly struggling, and in these cases the
sound can be rough, presumably due to interpolations as data is lost as a
result of the player not tracking reliably. No idea how characteristic this
is, though, of cheap players. (mine is cheap as it is a DVD/VHS combo.)

Slainte,

Jim

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