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| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player So much for the case of "little understanding"... http://www.linkedin.com/in/cyrilmartinNow Dave B., when it comes to your extensive ownership of expensive digital gear, all of them with no exception were using symmetrical FIR designs. Sad, very s... | |
| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player Tino,yes, I have compared the Sony with the Magic DAC II using the Sony as a source for both- the Magic DAC in minimum phase mode definitively adds transparency and a sense that "the timing is right" at high frequency. As soon as the DAC Magic is ... | |
| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player Update 2: I obtained the design white paper from Sony regarding the XA5400ES... As a side note, this paper should have been peer-reviewed as it contains many contradictory statements, and hints to the player having multichannel analog outputs, whi... | |
| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player Alright, I did some digging and have a bit of information to offer to the general public! The DAC used in this unit is a DSD1796 (Burr Brown / TI) - The "Triple SADAC" topology used in the 9000es is gone, likely because it isn't very cost effectiv... | |
| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player Dave, this only happens on CD- SACD is clean... Digital hardly needs any break-in, analog does, and the analog signal chain is the same for both CD and SACD- IMHO this is related to their CD upsampling filter choice (although they may have had no ... | |
| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player Thank you- I have another source and the problem isn't there, nor does it happen with vinyl (although frequency extension is very different). I would attribute this to the Sony, and as previously stated, the type of filter selected to perform the ... | |
| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player Possible to find in Germany from hifiberlinshop.de for ~1200euros incl. shipping. Just as many reviewers / buyers, I am impressed by the blend of qualities getting out of this player, and would go even further and say that it lost the "explosive" ... | |
| Looking for well recorded great piano on CD's Well recorded great pianos...I always favored Werner Haas who unfortunately died in his 30's from a bike accident. There are a few recordings that are incredibly good, even though they were recorded 30 years ago...I would check "Hommage a Werner H... |