Yamaha DVD-C750 DVD Changer Review

[Audioholics]

<P><A href="http://www.audioholics.com/productreviews/avhardware/YamahaDVD-C750DVDChanger1.php"><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><IMG style="WIDTH: 125px; HEIGHT: 49px" alt=[yamahaDVDC750] hspace=10 src="http://www.audioholics.com/news/thumbs/yamahaDVDC750_th.jpg" align=left border=0></FONT></A><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2>Audioholics' Ray Adkins took the initiative in reviewing Yamaha's new DVD-C750 universal DVD changer. What we found astounded us. As the first unit to go through our new Audioholics HQV testing procedure, the DVD-C750 was in essence the guinea pig that laid the golden egg. With an impressive performance that belies its humble MSRP, the DVD-C750 proved itself to be a value performer, both for audio and video. Overall it was a welcome surprise to hear such performance from a DVD player priced at just $329.</FONT></P>
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[Rob Babcock]

I was very excited to see a review of the Yammie- I'd wondered when the first affordable universal changer would come out. Unfortunately, it would never be more than a second stringer in my rig due to the idiot selection of 120 hz as the X-over point. Seriously, WTF? That's way too high for my system.

Otherwise it seems like an awesome peice, especially for the price.

 

[shokhead]

Read the review and i had it for just under 30 days. X over was a slight problem depending on your speakers. I had some other minor problems that bothered me enought to return it but for the most part,for 300 bucks it wasnt to bad.

 

[surveyor]

I was very excited to see a review of the Yammie- I'd wondered when the first affordable universal changer would come out. Unfortunately, it would never be more than a second stringer in my rig due to the idiot selection of 120 hz as the X-over point. Seriously, WTF? That's way too high for my system.

Otherwise it seems like an awesome peice, especially for the price.

I agree with Rob on the 120 Hz crossover. Yamaha must have suffered from a cranial to rectum inversion on that choice. What a shame!
By the way Rob my past six year military stint enables me to decifer WTF. Oh and former Registered Land Surveyors like me like to use that term also.

Cheers

 

[drbob_b_md]

I was very excited to see a review of the Yammie- I'd wondered when the first affordable universal changer would come out. Unfortunately, it would never be more than a second stringer in my rig due to the idiot selection of 120 hz as the X-over point. Seriously, WTF? That's way too high for my system.

Otherwise it seems like an awesome peice, especially for the price.

why not change the xover setting on your receiver(you can do that on the rxv2500 used in the review) or better yet i use an outlaw audio icbm bass manager between the player and my rx-v2500-you need a bass manager anyway to get the most out of sacd and dvd-a recordings rwb

 

[Rob Babcock]

The bass management of your receiver won't work with SACD or DVD-A, unless it digitizes the analog input, does the DSP/X-over, then converts back to analog. That works, but the extra cycles don't do the sound any favors. At any rate, I think it's absurd that years after the release of SACD & DVD-A we still are expected to buy an ICBM! C'mon! How long does it take to figure out how to do it, Yamaha? Not that Yammie is the only offender. None of the manufacturers seem to "get it."

My Denon DVD-2200, on the other hand, has superb bass management. I do wish it had independant settings for DVD-A and SACD instead of one global setting, but at least the hinge point is 80 hz. I'd love to be able to replace or augment it with a changer, but I won't until someone else gets bass management right.

 

[201jamesg]

Yamaha vs. Sony

Trying to decide between the Yamaha 750 and the Sony DVP-NC555ES. DW demands a changer. The Yamaha does DVD-Audio (for whatever that's worth; not a lot IMHO), and is a few hundred dollars cheaper. The Sony seems to have better video specs (for whatever that's worth, with HD DVD on the way), and appears to be built like a tank. Basically, I'm looking for great Redbook CD performance and good enough video to last a few years until HD is reasonably available. Will be played through a Rotel 1056 and Paradigm Studio 40s in the front (and I'll do more 2ch listening than anything else). Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[Bobber]

I hope to see audioholics reviews of the Yamaha DVD C950 (estimated out in April) and DVD S2500 (out any day). I have a DVD C920 (DVD-A) only. I'm looking for something with HDMI out and Firewire also. As I understand it HDMI will not pass SACD, I'm not sure about passing DVD-A to a AVR, so to stay didgital Im assuming the 1394 connection is the only way? Any input on this would be helpfull. The next AVR I buy, will have to have both connections, so far one of the few announced units is the Dennon 4806 coming out at a higher price point than I'd like to see. I was hoping Yamaha would come out with a 3500 series with this on it...wishfull thinking??
Bobber

 

[RLA]

Yamaha 750 $329 retail
Sony DVP-NC-555ES $599 retail
I would love to do an A/B shoot out even with its quirks at $329
The Yamaha is a great sounding DVD player that bested my Sony Transport and M/F outboard DAC
A review of a mid priced DVD player from a prominent manufacture is coming soon I just completed the bench tests today

 

[shokhead]

Do doubt about it,for that price it does just about everything and most pretty good. If i wouldnt have gotten a disc stuck,i'd still have it but i had 1 chance to take it back and took it. Heck i've told a few to get it even with the quirks. What bothers me could have zero effect on most others. I might add changers that do both SACD and DVD-A are few.

 

[Jwheel]

Does anyone know if other Yamaha dvd players have the X-over set at 120 Hz as well? Or are they user selectable or just fixed at 80 Hz.?

 

[shokhead]

I think thats fairly standard fix on non-selectable x-over. I think its more towards top end models you'll get that.

 

[Jwheel]

Do you mean that the X-over is user selectable on upper models? The reason that I ask is because I am considering buying a yamaha DVD player (
The S1500 or maybe the S2500). I don't want to buy either if they have a fixed X-over at 120 Hz. I don't have small speakers and the fixed X-over wouldn't help me any. Do you know if either of these models are fixed?

 

[aarond]

The S1500 has no bass management for DVDA, for SACD you can select 60,80,100 or 120 as the cutoff. 120 being the default setting

 

[Jwheel]

aarond,

Do you know if the S2500 has bass managment for DVDA?

 

[shokhead]

You know you can download just about any manual form websites to see just what they do and dont do.
The 750 has spealer level,distance,small/large/sub yes/no Plays most every disc,is a changer,pretty good audio and video. Under 400 bucks.

 

[lightimages]

C750 Menu Problem

I bought a DVD-C750 for playing standard Redbook audio CDs on my two channel stereo system. It sounds great, but -

It's hooked up on mixed stereo R/L out to a stereo integrated amp. No multi channel analog, no digital.

After configuring the menu settings for Stereo or Stereo plus Oversampling, the DVD-C750 reverts to factory default Multi Channel (mild fake two speaker surround) in the Audio menu, Dolby PLII at the face panel, and turns off oversampling at each disk change.

Yamaha Tech Support told me "Its suposta".

The Multi Channel/Dolby PLII fake surround is audible. A change back to stereo is audible. Passing through V Surround is very audible (ugh).

I stopped by Tweeters to try their floor model DVD-C750.

Same behavior. That DVD-C750 also reverts to factory default Multi Channel and turns off oversampling at each disk change. They had no suggestions.

Has anybody found a way to make it retain the settings?

 

[shokhead]

Your stuck as i keep telling people it would default but it wasnt a big deal. After awhile you'll remember to change it after each cd.

 

[matthewraz]

i have the player hooked up for stereo through the mixed outs as well. while the surround setting affects the sound (a lot) the pll II doesn't. i have checked and rechecked this - to my ears there is no diff. the saving grace about the upsampling quirk is that i (and others) couldn't hear a diff. with it engaged, so i just leave it off.

 

[DISCMAN]

I concur with Matthew. I have mine hooked up to a Sony DA3ES so I can easily switch between multi-channel direct & 2 channel direct. I didn't notice any difference between the direct 2 channel with DPII off or on. I also couldn't hear a difference between the 750's analog 2 stereo out & my Sony 555ES (which doesn't have DPII) using 2 copies of the same album.