Good topic. This has been discussed before not long ago and I submitted what I thought was fair and informed feedback. It's not that you can't obtain good universal disc players with decent audio. The believe however among the philes is that a combo DVD/CD player has to share more circuitry on the boards. There has to be extra board components and circuits for the video portion of the player which can impede sound quality for example. This is covered in Robert Harley's book, "The Complete Guide to High End Audio". He states that over approx $5K however, Universal disc players are then truly high end and the audio quality is superior. So for the purests, stand alone CD players are best unless you're willing to shell over $5K or more.
to CD / DVD or not to CD / DVD
I've had some discussions where people have told me you can't get anything good with a unit that plays both cd's and dvds (either in the same port or two different ones). I wanted to know how much you sacrifice or how good you can get and still have one unit for your various discs. And if ou know a good one, any recommendations?
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