I actually prefer the dedicated SACD players myself. "My best guess from reading literature and specifications is that most combo players (at least in this price range or below) downsample the DSD signal to PCM before converting to analog." (I expect to be able to tell the difference with my next television. One advantage to going the "universal" route is that for about the same money as one would spend on two players, one ends up with higher quality video circuitry. Other players I considered include models from Onkyo/Integra and Pioneer. The only other player I considered that doesn't seem to do this is the Yamaha DVD-S2300. My best guess from reading literature and specifications is that most combo players (at least in this price range or below) downsample the DSD signal to PCM before converting to analog. Also, the bass management for 2-channel programs seems to be useless, as far as I can tell (at least when using a receiver without adjustable input levels).Īmong other features, this unit has a switch on the front panel ("Pure Direct") that can be used to deactivate the video circuitry and/or the unit display. For one, fast forward and reverse for SACD are limited to 8x, and it is not possible for reverse beyond the beginning of a track to the end of the previous track. I am generally happy with this unit, although it does have some minor quirks. The player lists at USD$1000 I paid $940 others have paid less from what I have read. I own a Denon DVD-2900 "universal" player. It (the unit I have) is not useable for "serious" audio listening IMHO. One of my DVD-A players does indeed play DVD-A discs but, the unit itself sounds like pure garbage on all audio except movies and that is the purpose I use it for. Also I just listen in stereo.įor movies I buy sub $500 DVD players and I consider them commodities that can be discarded when newer technology such as HD-DVD comes along.
Now, some super high end machines may be able to overcome this with build but, we are talking units that are far, far out of the price range that most people could afford, probably in the 15k-20k up range.Īs music is my primary iterest I'll stick with SACD until this problem can be solved in "real world affordable" equipment. As a matter of fact one high end maker has delayed putting out a "universal" machine because of the noise generated by that circuitry makes the units S/N unaccptable as far as they are concerned, and no they can't leave the vid out because it's part of the DVD DVD-A format spec. I VERY firmly believe that the addition on Video circuitry ultimately interfears with audio quality. It is usually the format that the manufacturing company is mainly aligned with that gets the better performace mainly due to what that is what they have been concentrating on and developing in the rest of their line. "universal" machine favours one format (SACD or DVD-A) over the other as far as sound quality/reproduction is concerned. On the "lower" end say under 10K most of what I have heard/read suggests that a Anyone tried one of these combined "miracles"?
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