? for those who have DVD-audio players

[Ilovemovies]

I paid 27.00 Canadian at Music World, I had a choice of 3 SACDS, all the rest were DVDA's I'm having a H** of a time finding SACDS in my corner of Ontario, but the DVDA's are quite plentiful... Can't figure that out however

 

[matthewraz]

I paid 27.00 Canadian at Music World, I had a choice of 3 SACDS, all the rest were DVDA's I'm having a H** of a time finding SACDS in my corner of Ontario, but the DVDA's are quite plentiful... Can't figure that out however

amazon.ca has dsotm sacd for $14.99 cnd. http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008CLOA/qid=1110992976/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_3_1/701-9510431-3625140
free shipping for orders over $39 and lots of sacds (at least for now). usually arrives within 3 days if marked as "ships within 24 hrs." not recommending for amazon, but rather for canadians outside of big cities.
just ordered roxy music avalon for $21 cnd.

 

[krabapple]

If you buy a DVD-A /SACD player, be prepared to educate yourself on matters such as bass management and speaker delay, where the performance of different players, and between formats in the *same* player, can be vastly different. There are very few players or receivers today that apply similar bass management and delay across the board, as they should. This will eventually change as more and more makers adopt all-in-one digital connections such as ilink/Firewire...but by then SACD and DVD-A may be dead as formats.

Btw, I say this as an owner of a Pioneer DV-45a uni-player, a Pioneer 56txi AVR, an Outlaw ICBM to normalize bass management for 6-channel analog sources, and a few dozen DVDAs and SACDs.

 

[dorsm365]

Oh Yeah! Go Universal!

I have a Denon DVD-3910 and life is great. Although it does sometimes take loger to "read" the disc, it is worth investing in up-and-coming formats like SACD. Although I am mainly an audio fanatic, movie capability is a major plus. Make sure to look for true 24 bit conversion, though, as this will let you take full advantage of SACD and DVD Audio.

 

[drogulus]

A good source for SACDs.

 

[Ilovemovies]

thx for the info maybe you could educate me , btw I am using the Pioneer 578a-s

>>all-in-one digital connections such as ilink/Firewire...<<< What exactly is this ilink and firewire? what does it do?

 

[Ilovemovies]

I thought my pioneer 578a does have true 34 bit conversion ... am i understand you correctly

I'm totally a newbie at this format

 

[ben_wood]

I also own a Denon DVD-2200, and while I am very happy with this player I am not pleased with the lack of Hi-Rez software available. I'm thinking that a high quality redbook cd player like the Cambridge Audio 640C Azur might be my next audio player.

 

[STSinNYC]

Universal players

We have two: Onkyo DV-CP802, Yamaha DVD-6770 (same as DVD-750). Both are excellent audio players, DVD-A, SACD and RB CD. We think they are both good video players also, but we may not be quite as critical as viewers as some others here. We are pretty discriminating listeners, with formal training.

S.

 

[krabapple]

thx for the info maybe you could educate me , btw I am using the Pioneer 578a-s

>>all-in-one digital connections such as ilink/Firewire...<<< What exactly is this ilink and firewire? what does it do?

When a player can pass a digital signal to the receiver, the receiver can do all the decoding/processing of the signal -- the player becomes little more than a 'transport' for the audio part of the signal. If you have your player hooked up using an optical or coaxial digital connection, for playback of CDs and movie sountracks, this is what it's doing. The usual optical/coax digital cable can't pass SACD or DVD-A audio, however -- that's why those players offer 6-channel analog output and their own level/bass amanagement/ delay settings. For hi-rez sources, most players are transports AND decoders/processors. (It's like in the 'old days' of a few years ago, when A/V receivers were sold as 'surround ready', and you had to do Dolby Digital or DTS decoding in the player, and send it out over analog cables to the AVR).


ilink/Firewire/IEEE1394 are different names for the same thing: another means of passing digital information over a single cable. In particular, it can pass 'high-resolution' digital audio such as SACD and DVD-A, as well as the the usual CD, Dolby Digital, DTS, etc audio that 'regular' digital cables can carry. Some Pioneer, Yamaha, Denon models and a few others brands offer ilink connectivity between players and receivers. In addition to reducing the number of cables, the advantage is that the receiver can apply the *same* bass management , channel level, and delay settings to *all* kinds of input. This standardization is nice given that modern receivers can do things like room calibration too. It also keeps the signal in the digital domain during all processing, rather than putting it through multiple rounds of D/A conversion , which has theoretical benefits.

HDMI connectiors are another up and coming alternative to standard optical/coax digital. HDMI goes ilink one better by offering *video* signal transfer too. However, with respec tto hi-rez audio, AFAIK HDMI is currently available only for DVD-A , but not SACD, transmission. I think it' s been approved, but no players yet incorporate that feature.

 

[WeAreSurrounded]

Very happy with my Denon DVD-2200...

..universal player ! Especially when I play multichannel DVD-As and SACDs through the 6 analog connections with my Denon AVR 3803. Although stereo is not bad at all either ! The quality of the music is fantastic, as for the movie DVDs I didn't care that much but I think you will be satisfied in this aspect as well.
The biggest problem is to find good quality (and interesting titles) DVD-As/SACDs themselves, even here in States sales people are mostly ignorant in that matter. Internet helps quite a bit ...
Happy hunting !