Anyone got any ideas about a £1000-or-under SACD player I could pair with my
Stax 3030 earspeaker system? I've noted various fine units from Marantz and
Denon but wonder if there's some more esoteric players I'm not considering.
In fact nearer to £800 would be better.

At the moment I'm using a fairly mid-fi Sony m/ch SACD player with decent
interconnects, but suspect the Stax could do a lot better. I've taken the
SACD player out of a m/ch setup (which will be out of action for a while
owing to outsize Chrimbo tree courtesy of the missus...), so if the new one
was devoted to the Stax then stereo-only would be fine, but m/ch would
enable me to enjoy it through the full system.

Cheers

Alex

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:57:02 -0000, "Alex"
wrote:

Anyone got any ideas about a £1000-or-under SACD player I could pair with my
Stax 3030 earspeaker system? I've noted various fine units from Marantz and
Denon but wonder if there's some more esoteric players I'm not considering.
In fact nearer to £800 would be better.

Previous testing reported here and my personal experience suggest that
the Pioneer DV-575 is as good as anything regardless of price in terms
of audible sound quality. (Currently 120 pounds from Richer Sounds.)

I have been using its predecessor (the DV-565) with the Stax 3030 for
some time and cannot fault it.

--
Chris Isbell
Southampton, UK

"Chris Isbell" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:57:02 -0000, "Alex"
wrote:

Anyone got any ideas about a £1000-or-under SACD player I could pair with
my
Stax 3030 earspeaker system? I've noted various fine units from Marantz
and
Denon but wonder if there's some more esoteric players I'm not
considering.
In fact nearer to £800 would be better.

Previous testing reported here and my personal experience suggest that
the Pioneer DV-575 is as good as anything regardless of price in terms
of audible sound quality. (Currently 120 pounds from Richer Sounds.)


Or for sub-£100 if you shop about a bit...??

I have one of these and would only say that a 'KI tweaked' Marantz I have
betters it for bass and 'loudness' but that's not surprising as I think the
'tweak' is mostly ramping the output up to over 2 volts...??

Otherwise the Pioneer is a damn fine little spinner for both movies and
music and loopy VFM if you can get it under a hundred!

(The Marantz is no good for SACDs anyway, of course.... ;-)

"Keith G" wrote in message
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Previous testing reported here and my personal experience suggest that
the Pioneer DV-575 is as good as anything regardless of price in terms
of audible sound quality. (Currently 120 pounds from Richer Sounds.)


Or for sub-£100 if you shop about a bit...??

I have one of these and would only say that a 'KI tweaked' Marantz I have
betters it for bass and 'loudness' but that's not surprising as I think
the
'tweak' is mostly ramping the output up to over 2 volts...??

Otherwise the Pioneer is a damn fine little spinner for both movies and
music and loopy VFM if you can get it under a hundred!

(The Marantz is no good for SACDs anyway, of course.... ;-)

Though there is a KI Marantz SA-7001 SACD player which replaces the SA-8400
(which some seem to feel was a better machine).

Cheers

Otherwise the Pioneer is a damn fine little spinner for both movies and
music and loopy VFM if you can get it under a hundred!

(The Marantz is no good for SACDs anyway, of course.... ;-)

Though there is a KI Marantz SA-7001 SACD player which replaces the SA-8400
(which some seem to feel was a better machine).

Sounds like you're opposed to spending small sums of money on the
Pioneer to get the job done... ;-)

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

"Mark Tranchant" wrote in message
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Otherwise the Pioneer is a damn fine little spinner for both movies and
music and loopy VFM if you can get it under a hundred!

(The Marantz is no good for SACDs anyway, of course.... ;-)

Though there is a KI Marantz SA-7001 SACD player which replaces the
SA-8400
(which some seem to feel was a better machine).

Sounds like you're opposed to spending small sums of money on the Pioneer
to get the job done... ;-)



One downside with using DVDPs for music can be the 'tray time' while the
machine identifies the disk, but one upside is they way the machine switches
on when you press the 'Tray Out' button and puts the tray away when you
switch off...!! :-)

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:57:41 -0000, Keith G wrote:




One downside with using DVDPs for music can be the 'tray time' while the
machine identifies the disk, but one upside is they way the machine
switches
on when you press the 'Tray Out' button and puts the tray away when you
switch off...!! :-)

Unlike most DVD video players, the 575 seems to have been designed with
audio playback as a priority. It doesn't suffer from one of the problems
that most DVD video players have - glitches in the audio on track
boundaries. The 575 will play a live CD or continuous mix CD perfectly.

Cheers

James.