dsutfin

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Great Blu-ray or DVD player for CD Transport
I hooked up the new Pioneer DV-79avi last night and I have to admit that it was an immediate improvement over the Oppo player I was previously using. The overall presentation was much cleaner and transparent. Tighter bass, deeper soundstage, smoot... 
Great Blu-ray or DVD player for CD Transport
I appreciate the input from everybody! On somewhat of an impulse buy I ended up purchasing a Pioneer Elite DV-79avi that looks like it's pretty close to new condition for $265 including shipping and all fees. At that price I don't think I can do m... 
Great Blu-ray or DVD player for CD Transport
I had considered the Denon 3910 but was concerned about the laser reliability and loading times based on what I've read on the net. Anyone have any familiarity with Pioneer Elite players (dv-59avi, dv-79avi)? I used to own an old pioneer DVD playe... 
Great Blu-ray or DVD player for CD Transport
Tbg, you have any suggestions for a better CD transport option that can at least do DVD? 
Toslink from TV to DAC???
Mistercrash, The reason you are getting that noise is your cable box is outputting a 5.1 signal (Dolby/DTS) and you are trying to convert it with a 2 channel DAC. The two aren't compatible. The cable box needs to be able to downsample to stereo PC... 
Changing to bookshelf speakers. Recommendations?
Thanks for all of the input guys! I knew this was going to be a tough decision to make give the sheer quantity of different types of monitors being produced these days. Fortunately I live in Chicago and you can find almost every hifi manufacturer'...