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| pick a DVD player for my HT Around $250--Sony 360From $400 to $600--Technics A-10 inc. DVD-AAround $800--Pioneer 37From $1100 to $1500--Sony S9000ES inc. SACD Around $2,000--Pioneer 38 inc. DVD-A or --Phillips 1000 inc. multichannel SACD | |
| CD players, 5-6K You must give the Marantz SA-1 CD/SACD player consideration. | |
| SACD Dominates Recommended List Sugarbrie, You got a good point, but.....I would not use Microsoft as an example of someone who shares technology with others. It was IBM who created the IBM-PC and opened it to third parties and beat Apple. Intel and Microsoft keep the technology... | |
| SACD Dominates Recommended List Audioasylum's URL is www.audioasylum.com and not www.asylum.com.I also checked with audioreview.com. There's no one there that mentioned buying a Marantz for $4,000. I have seen several messages in the past two months about people buying or thinki... | |
| SACD Dominates Recommended List Several people have mentioned in the SACD forum on www.asylum.com that they have purchased the Marantz for around $4,000. Log into the Forum, search on Marantz and you might be able to find a past message and email the author. You can also check w... | |
| SACD Dominates Recommended List 1. Right now, Sony is the only label producing SACD-only discs. I hope Sony soon stops this practice.2. A recent article in a German magazine stated that Sony will soon lower Software prices and begin producing only multi-layer discs. Hope the art... | |
| SACD Dominates Recommended List Stereophile factors in price into their recommendations. A better sounding piece could be rated lower because it costs much more. That's probably the case with the Levinson combo. As another example, Stereophile and others have concluded that Accu... | |
| Sour DOW/NASDAQ to kill digital future? SACD has more advantages than just better sound.1. It has multichannel option. CD's don't. 2. It has a video option. CD's don't. Right now, SACD's don't either, but could. 3. Hybrid discs are downward compatible to CD players. DVD-A is not. Sony e... | |
| Sour DOW/NASDAQ to kill digital future? It might force prices of both hardware and software down, but I do not believe it will hurt the future or development of either format. | |
| Sour DOW/NASDAQ to kill digital future? My local high-end dealer thinks that his store's sales should be used as a leading indicator. The store experiences slow down in sales months before anyone realizes there's an economic slowdown. This year, the owner told me that sales came to an a... | |
| which output for cd s on 9000es? The 9000ES' DAC is probably equal to a $300 external DAC. I would not expect it to match a $3,000 Levinson DAC.Several months ago, my 22 year old and I listened to several CDs to determine if we preferred the digital or analog outs. We prefer the ... | |
| Who has actually listened to DVD audio? There's exceptions, but SACD appears to stress accuracy. SACD engineers want a piano to sound like a piano, guitar like a guitar, etc. They want to develop a sound stage which one could visualize.DVD-A has mainly stressed the mid-fi market with lo... | |
| What is SACD? Abstract, good response. I would like to point out that SACD is intended to be a better CD and not replace DVD. Most SACDs do not have video and the majority are stereo (like CDs). The hybrid SACDs can be played in both CD players and SACD players... | |
| Another glowing reveiw of sony 9000es This month's The Perfect Vision, the HT sister of The Absolute Sound, reviewed the S9000ES in this month's issue. Again, a glowing review. The review is not online. | |
| Which Sony dvd playr is a good CD playr Proacman, audio is important for DVD-V too--be it listening to movies or concert videos. I can tell the difference in between my Sony DVP-300 (which cost me $500 2 years ago) and my S9000ES. Most noticable is the bass, but the 9000 is more dynamic... |