I think the original poster was referring to using a DVD player through its analog outs for CD playback, not as a transport with a DAC, but perhaps I misundersood.
Anyone use a DVD player as a front end?
I was at a friends home today and listened to his system which is fronted by a Pioneer DVD player. My friend plays CD's on the DVD player and in his very nice system,the sound was extraordinary. Far superior to many transport/DAC combos that I have heard. What's going on?
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Jane -- Jitter that can be introduced at the interface between a separate transport and dac will be a sensitive function of cable length. See the comment by Tobias in the following thread, and the subsequent comments by me and others: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr_post.pl?ddgtl&1237611683&2&3&4&5 Obviously this effect is not relevant to a stand-alone dvd or cd player, but perhaps it was a factor in your listening sessions with transport/dac combinations. Regards, -- Al |
Corrrection to the link in my previous post: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1233206618 -- Al |
Thanks for all the replies so far...My friend does indeed have a very high quality system. He was however, using the analog outputs of the DVD player direct into his pre-amp. He also has a stand alone DAC which he hooked up to the digital output of the DVD player for me to compare. The sound was very similar to the DVD player by itself! Although with the DAC in play there was a slight increase in bottom end response.(Very slight). I found out today that the Pioneer he uses is the model 414,if that is of any help. He does use the player on an isolation stand with custom isolation feet on the player itself, apparently all else is stock! While the overall sound wasn't quite as resolving as my system, it was amazingly good considering. Not close to my analog rig OTOH. |
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