How is multi channel better than stereo?
- ...
- 46 posts total
Nreddy: it's a preamp. |
We are talking about the best SACD player. Two high end manufacturers make their own chips-EMM and DcS. The rest buy off the market available chips and through stringent quality controls and other circuits make do, to sound the best they can. I am sure Denon has got fire wire or whatever digital connection they've placed for a SACD conversion in one of their amps. Why didn't EMM use this? It's just not the best! If you are comparing Emm with anything else-do it with the CDSD transport, as it is a key component in performance and hence I would rate this a top notch SACD player to a few others. The modded Philips SACD 1000 is something that Meitner did in the past(probably regretted with all the bbreakdown issues) as that was the only decent sized machine available to take his mods. But that is the past and it's no more available from them. Dead topic- the 1000SACD! Now Meitner has built all his gear from scratch, yes they will use other OEM's for the base transport, etc. but the flexibility it gives a manufacturer to work from scratch cannot be compared with taking an 'off the shelf' product and tweaking it. No disregard to all the modder's out there, they do a great job satisfying a lot of audiophiles and keeping the competition healthy. There will also come a time when you have to compare price points and the shelf product may become better value. Saying that most Meitner and DCS gear for that matter is upgradeable and they once again will take the market lead, till someone works his great gift of modifying a product to close the gap. Clean question- what do modded people benchmark themselves off-The Market Leader's. Who in all these threads is the market leader-EMM/dcs/Goldmund,etc.. C'mon let's give where credit is due to both players- manufacturers as well as the mods establishers who too do a great job to keep the market active and manufacturers on their toes! |
- 46 posts total