Pioneer 578A I bought a yr. ago.I use it in the second systen in my bedroom for video. I bought it mainly for Music Playback due to it's ability to play all Music formats,but have not used it yet in my main system.
What I was saying regarding the Music payback of DVDP's is that they suffer due to their use as MP3 Players. Master clock frequencies required by MPEG screws them for Redbook playback.
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John Atkinson 19:45:32 07/03/04 (15)
In Reply to: Stereophile & The Absolute Sound Critiques of DVD Players posted by Welly Wu on July 03, 2004 at 18:53:27:
> have read in both
Stereophile and
The Absolute Sound > that the editors think DVD players do not make for outstanding
> Compact Disc players in general
for technical reasons. Might
> I inquire specifically what those technical reasons are? What is it
> specifically that John Atkinson is talking about?
The problem is that the master clock frequencies required by MPEG
video decoding are veryy different from that required for CD playback.
So, with the majority of the DVD players I have examined, their
noise floors when playing back CDs are contaminated with enharmonic
rubbish. In the worst case, this reduced dynamic range to less than
14 bits' worth, ie, audible degradation.
The best DVD-based players, like the Ayre D1x, the long-
discontinued California Audio Labs CL-20, and the Linn Unidisk did
not suffer from this problem, but are/were/are not cheap.
I have just received the Toshiba 3950 I said I was buying, and will
be putting it through its technical paces in the next couple of days.
