Topic: Maybe a decent Universal Player option?

[Nick's Picks]

Stereophile quotes "any misgivings I had pairing up a $150 deck with a $50k system were quickly laid to rest"

[SparkE!]

If it can't play burned DVD-A discs gaplessly, I'm not interested.  Period.

[Nick's Picks]

home burnt....
I dont believe a comercial DVD-A has been tried.

but then again...who burns those obsolete things anyway.

[edtyre]

home burnt....
I dont believe a comercial DVD-A has been tried.

but then again...who burns those obsolete things anyway.

I played all my Neil Young commercial DVDA's last night and they are gapless.

Nick is right, i play all my 24 bit files from the PC with
no problems, so the hiccups on the obsolete discs isn't that
big a deal for me.

[SparkE!]

home burnt....
I dont believe a comercial DVD-A has been tried.

but then again...who burns those obsolete things anyway.

True, but all my 24 bit discs are home burnt.

For the record, what program was used to author the home burnt, gappy recordings?  Was it DVD-Audiofile?  Do discs that are authored with DiscWelder have the gap problem?

[edtyre]

home burnt....
I dont believe a comercial DVD-A has been tried.

but then again...who burns those obsolete things anyway.

True, but all my 24 bit discs are home burnt.

For the record, what program was used to author the home burnt, gappy recordings?  Was it DVD-Audiofile?  Do discs that are authored with DiscWelder have the gap problem?

DVD-Audiofile for mine

[terrapinj]

home burnt....
I dont believe a comercial DVD-A has been tried.

but then again...who burns those obsolete things anyway.

True, but all my 24 bit discs are home burnt.

For the record, what program was used to author the home burnt, gappy recordings?  Was it DVD-Audiofile?  Do discs that are authored with DiscWelder have the gap problem?

DVD-Audiofile for mine

same here

[janka]

DVD-audiophile for mine too. The gap is very very slight, more of a hiccup in the sound. Starting when I was using DVD-Audio-Creator (this unit plays them fine) I stopped putting track marks in-between tracks that segue together. I generaly listen to things straight through and if something jams right into another song I listen to the whole passage.

For nick's question of who still burns these obsolete things.
1. People who don't want to worry about losing all there music when a drive crashes
2. People who don't want to fire up a PC everytime they want to listen to music.(or leave a pc on 24/7 for instant access)
3. People who use their PC for other things than just music.
4. People who realize a dvd-player sucks up a lot less electricity then a PC & Monitor.

[Nick's Picks]

For nick's question of who still burns these obsolete things.
1. People who don't want to worry about losing all there music when a drive crashes

ok.  I've learned my lesson there.  I archive the important stuff on DVD.

2. People who don't want to fire up a PC everytime they want to listen to music.(or leave a pc on 24/7 for instant access)
3. People who use their PC for other things than just music.
4. People who realize a dvd-player sucks up a lot less electricity then a PC & Monitor.

so ......, are you saying that a dude like me who has a PC sleeping in one room 24/7 and waking up on call to listen to tunes is ..., wasteful? 
you get too much exercise with all that vinyl your listening to.  you going  to start reffering to digital as "dat flaaabby muuuuzzic" there Hanz?

[janka]

so ......, are you saying that a dude like me who has a PC sleeping in one room 24/7 and waking up on call to listen to tunes is ..., wasteful? 

Yes, I am tough guy. You gonna do something about it this time.

http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,83765.30.html

[Nick's Picks]

you could always walk over and "turn on" the PC when you want to listen.  You could always  just have a fat NAS drive w/tunes on it for easy playing.  no different than walking over and turning on the TT and stereo, is it?

btw, i'm picking up a heavy bag and TWO sets of boxing gloves.
BBQs will be fun at my house this summer.

[Tim]

I got my a couple of weeks ago and I love it. great improvement over my toshiba. I haven't tried any of my sacd's or dvd-a's yet (I only own a couple) but oppo->bel canto dac-2 sounds very sweet to my ears.

I have to say, the build quality on this is pretty nice for a cheap and plastic deck. The toshiba was a piece of junk

[noahbickart]

There is another positive review of this unit in the June '07 Stereophile, look for the "Follow Ups." I don't use CDs or DVDs anymore, but for those who do.

-Noah

[noam]

24/96 via coax for DVD-V and/or DVD-A?

I did not see anyone mention this on this thread, but John Atkinson DID
measure the DV-970HD's S/PDIF jacks and found out that they DO output 96kHz and
192 kHz, BUT, that they dithered 24-bit audio to 16-bit.

In response to my question, John Atkinson e-mailed me privately that he measures S/PDIF jacks of other units he reviews as well, but he published only the results for this model for some reason. He gave me a list of DVD players that he measured to output 96/24 through their S/PDIF jacks, but they were all very expensive and/or unavailable. He volunteered to measure the S/PDIF jacks of his consumer grade players at home, but never followed through.

IS THERE ANY DVD PLAYER OUT THERE (for <$1000) THAT WAS MEASURED TO REALLY OUTPUT 96/24 THROUGH ITS S/PDIF jacks?

Noam

[janka]

Interesting and very lame if that is the case. I'm going to test mine this evening, 970(digi-out) > PC, and see what my soundcard syncs to for the digital input. It will go to ebay if it's dithering, my 30 day trial is up. Hopefully it's only doing that on commercial copyrighted DVD-A's.  It sure sounds like it's sending 24bit as my DVD-A's sound fuller to me than their cd counterparts dithered with WaveLabs UV22 plugin. Thanks for the heads-up.