DVD- Vs -CD player
 

I own a very old Sony CDP - 990 CD player, which has served me brilliantly
for more years than I care to remember. However, last year, I visited Richer
Sounds for one of their Sunday clearance sales and picked up a Sony DVP
S735D for just £30. Looking at the unit, it appeared to had never been
plugged in and the manual and remote were still in their sealed packaging.
The 735 received rave reviews a few years ago and cost around £500. After
setting it up, I found the picture quality superb. However, a couple of
nights ago, I happened to drop a CD into the 735 and quite frankly, was
knocked out by the sound quality reproduced by this primarily DVD player.

Anyone else found DVD players as good or better than CD players for playing
CD's?

Cheers all
tox

DVD- Vs -CD player
 

"tox" wrote in message
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I own a very old Sony CDP - 990 CD player, which has served me brilliantly
for more years than I care to remember. However, last year, I visited
Richer
Sounds for one of their Sunday clearance sales and picked up a Sony DVP
S735D for just £30. Looking at the unit, it appeared to had never been
plugged in and the manual and remote were still in their sealed packaging.
The 735 received rave reviews a few years ago and cost around £500. After
setting it up, I found the picture quality superb. However, a couple of
nights ago, I happened to drop a CD into the 735 and quite frankly, was
knocked out by the sound quality reproduced by this primarily DVD player.

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..... ;-)

DVD- Vs -CD player
 

It ain't about DVD-vs-CD players but about old-vs-new technology.

Kal

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:19:04 GMT, "tox"
wrote:

I own a very old Sony CDP - 990 CD player, which has served me brilliantly
for more years than I care to remember. However, last year, I visited Richer
Sounds for one of their Sunday clearance sales and picked up a Sony DVP
S735D for just £30. Looking at the unit, it appeared to had never been
plugged in and the manual and remote were still in their sealed packaging.
The 735 received rave reviews a few years ago and cost around £500. After
setting it up, I found the picture quality superb. However, a couple of
nights ago, I happened to drop a CD into the 735 and quite frankly, was
knocked out by the sound quality reproduced by this primarily DVD player.

Anyone else found DVD players as good or better than CD players for playing
CD's?

Cheers all
tox

DVD- Vs -CD player
 

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:19:04 GMT, "tox"
wrote:

I own a very old Sony CDP - 990 CD player, which has served me brilliantly
for more years than I care to remember. However, last year, I visited Richer
Sounds for one of their Sunday clearance sales and picked up a Sony DVP
S735D for just £30. Looking at the unit, it appeared to had never been
plugged in and the manual and remote were still in their sealed packaging.
The 735 received rave reviews a few years ago and cost around £500. After
setting it up, I found the picture quality superb. However, a couple of
nights ago, I happened to drop a CD into the 735 and quite frankly, was
knocked out by the sound quality reproduced by this primarily DVD player.

Anyone else found DVD players as good or better than CD players for playing
CD's?

Cheers all
tox

Well, my Sony DVP-S7700 has a dual laser system so it's supposed to
have a mechanism accuracy that is superior to most CD players.
I think the transport was used in Mark Levinson CD players. However,
I personally don't think it sounds better than my base-level Rotel
RCD-855 cd player. Maybe I need a new preamp?
-Rich

DVD- Vs -CD player
 

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:33:40 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"tox" wrote in message
...
I own a very old Sony CDP - 990 CD player, which has served me brilliantly
for more years than I care to remember. However, last year, I visited
Richer
Sounds for one of their Sunday clearance sales and picked up a Sony DVP
S735D for just £30. Looking at the unit, it appeared to had never been
plugged in and the manual and remote were still in their sealed packaging.
The 735 received rave reviews a few years ago and cost around £500. After
setting it up, I found the picture quality superb. However, a couple of
nights ago, I happened to drop a CD into the 735 and quite frankly, was
knocked out by the sound quality reproduced by this primarily DVD player.

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..................
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

DVD- Vs -CD player
 

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:19:36 -0500, Kalman Rubinson
wrote:

It ain't about DVD-vs-CD players but about old-vs-new technology.

Good point, and it certainly seems to hold for the latest generation
of 'universal' players. My new (made in China) Pioneer DV-575A is
sonically indistinguishable from the Meridian 588 on CD, plays
anything that fits in the slot, and generates great pictures. It also
cost about a quarter of the DV-515 it replaced.

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:19:04 GMT, "tox"
wrote:

I own a very old Sony CDP - 990 CD player, which has served me brilliantly
for more years than I care to remember. However, last year, I visited Richer
Sounds for one of their Sunday clearance sales and picked up a Sony DVP
S735D for just £30. Looking at the unit, it appeared to had never been
plugged in and the manual and remote were still in their sealed packaging.
The 735 received rave reviews a few years ago and cost around £500. After
setting it up, I found the picture quality superb. However, a couple of
nights ago, I happened to drop a CD into the 735 and quite frankly, was
knocked out by the sound quality reproduced by this primarily DVD player.

Anyone else found DVD players as good or better than CD players for playing
CD's?

Cheers all
tox

--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

DVD- Vs -CD player
 

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:33:40 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"tox" wrote in message
...
I own a very old Sony CDP - 990 CD player, which has served me
brilliantly
for more years than I care to remember. However, last year, I visited
Richer
Sounds for one of their Sunday clearance sales and picked up a Sony DVP
S735D for just £30. Looking at the unit, it appeared to had never been
plugged in and the manual and remote were still in their sealed
packaging.
The 735 received rave reviews a few years ago and cost around £500.
After
setting it up, I found the picture quality superb. However, a couple of
nights ago, I happened to drop a CD into the 735 and quite frankly, was
knocked out by the sound quality reproduced by this primarily DVD
player.

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.

* 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.


--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au


--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au

DVD- Vs -CD player
 

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote


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..................


Yes, I bought mine to replace a DV-350 (to get Progressive Scan and
Component Out - I'm not interested in multichannel sound) and even the dear
old 350 is plenty good enough for me on CD and MP3s....

DVD- Vs -CD player
 

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 07:44:29 +1000, "Trevor Wilson"
wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 18:33:40 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

"tox" wrote in message
...

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

* 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?
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

DVD- Vs -CD player
 

As yet another owner of a Pioneer DV-575A I am curious about what the
above modifications will achieve and why?