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And at the suggested price it will be a ludicrously cheap way of upgrading the sound from even fairly inexpensive DVD machines.For many of us, that will mean no longer having to have both a CD player and a DVD player.
Harking back to the topic of cheap CD players, most DVD players have an SPDIF out, including the super-cheapies. Be warned that this is also used for DTS out. In some cases the interface doesn't meet the SPDIF standard 100%. I personally have a $120 DVD with SPDIF out which seems to work OK with one or two provisos. A small problem with 90% (actually it's 6/7 I've seen or 85.7%) of these players is that the DVD player doesn't think it's a CD player until you put the disc in and it loads the audio programme. ...
Not sure how true or critical it is but some player is not bit perfect.http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/digital/messages/105044.htmlWell, is there such thing as bit perfect transport?Sam
Ben & Sam,FWIW, I recall reading somewhere (on a DAC DIY site) that someone had tested their CD player for "bit correctness" and found it to be substantially out... after investigation it was discovered that the manufacturer had inserted a digital volume control somewhere between the transport and the SPDIF out such that at full volume all digital samples were multiplied by 0.97 (from memory) rather than 1.0; I'm sure this is an uncommon idiosynchrasy.