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Great Progessive Scan and Great CD Playback?

Several months ago the Toshiba 9200 received excellent reviews from the Home Theater mags for its progressive scan abilities, and also from Stereophile for its excellent handling of CD's. Although the price for it has become quite reasonable (about $700), the assesments by hometheaterhifi.com of its progressive scan capabilities no longer put it at the head of the pack. I am looking for a DVD player that really does fabulous progressive scan and doubles as an excellent source for CD playback. Although there are some great candidates out there for video performance (Panasonic RP-91, Kenwood Soverign 5700), the audio source capabilities of these units remain relatively uncommented upon. Any thoughts on these units, or any suggestions on excellent video combined with excellent audio?
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avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
There is hardly a dvd player under a grand that will compete with the "good" cd-only players. My opinion is get one of each. --/-- or stay with the dvd/cd player,but you will be missing what the quality cd-only player brings to the table.
msnloeth
57 posts
 
I just got a Denon 2800 and so far I'm very pleased with both dvd and cd playback. Dealtime.com has some reviews of it (and others)and I think one of the reviewers felt the cd playback was superior to him more expensive cd only player. I'm not that familiar with dvd players myself but after watching two movies on it I have no complaints. I have listened to numerous cd's on it however and I think it is very good in this regard.
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jfrech
1,816 posts
 
The Muse Thalia and 9, the Meridian 596, and the Camelot are good choices...

596 not prog scan but, still has one of the best video around...
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ncarv
983 posts
 
I am extremely pleased with the Sony DVP-S9000ES. You can pick it up for around $950 or a little less. Check out the reviews. I was impressed by the video, but when I played a CD, I was astonished. I didn't think a multi-player could sound so good. It also plays SACD's.
eyeman OP
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Avguygeorge, that simply is not true. The Toshiba 9200 and the Sony 9000 were reviewed extensively by Stereophile magazine for their 2-channel audio, and were shown to be excellent. In fact, the Toshiba compared extremely favorably with CD players in the $2-3000 range. Although I think that audiowise this player is excellent, it has fallen behind the times for progressive scan capabilities with its older implementation of the Genesis chip. I am simply looking for the audio quality of this player with a better progressive scan implementation.
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