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Denon 5900 Universal Player - I'm In Bliss
Before I give personal opinions let me give my system
Spendor 7/1 - I think these are awesome for their price. I have heard many speakers more expensive and though maybe more detailed just do not give the complete package as well. The biggest weakness in my opinion is the dynamics but for a speaker that only has an 8 inch woofer and a tweeter what are you really expecting? Plus the midrange vocals/horns are close to die for. Krell Kav300i - Not the greatest in audiophile terms but was a huge step up of my prior Conrad Johnson preamp Aragon 2004 mkii amplifier. More live, dynamic, and smooth. Probably the biggest weak nesses is it lacks true high end detail plus warmth, and though much more dynamic than my prior setup I'm sure you can get much more dynamic amplifiers. MIT interconnects and speaker cables - I dont know the series off my head but their at least good enough to know their not my limiting factor. Velodyne ULD-12 - This sub is very accurate. Its not super accurate but compared to many subs I've heard it doesnt make me fel like the sound is degraded at all. PS Audio Audio Outles - Nice little power filter. Sony 9aes 5 disc changer - I know, the weakest part of my system. The problem is that I bought this top of the line Sony ES 5 disc player in 1997 and I have refused to buy a new player until it was EXACTLY what I wanted. I read about DVD-A in 1998 and SACD in 1999 and Universal players in 2000 but since the first models have all been made cheaply the entire idea of Universal Players was useless. Finally when the ~$2000 plyers that actually converted PCM for DVD-A and DSD for SACD correctly came out I knew it was close in time to purchase a player.I bought my boss the Marantz 8400 when i designed his system (JM Lab Utopia Krell KAV 300i) and honestly it didnt do it for me. 3 months ago I started hearing about the new Denon DVD-5900. The positives were simple. It was supposed to be finally made for audiophiles. 30 pounds, improved analog sections and it played SACD, DVD-A, HDCD, and in normal redbook cd it used its 24 bit upsampling tecjnology. The negatives were that its denon and the the previous denon player was reviewed to have poor sound. So I decided to purchase it in faith that if denon is truely making a player of this actual size and included every audiophile format possible I had to have faith that they actually designed this to compete with true high end sound. Plus I knew that you can modify these machines (analog sections, jitter clocks, power supplies) and that even if I was disappointed I could salvage the sound. Anyway, now to my opinion. And let me give one more disclaimer. I know my CD player previously just doesnt do any justice but I have heard many, many, many systems and i know what good digital is. In fact most of the time I have been disappointed in what I've heard because I would read about how great $5000 CD players are and then when I would hear systems with these players some would blow me away and some wouldnt. So I bought the Denon 5900. It is a tank. HUGE!!!. So I burned it in a week and hear are my opnions. The player is truely high end. CD Playback - The CD playback blows my previous player away. Added about 1" on each side of sound stage. The timing was more real. The sound more smooth, a decent amount more detailed, but most of all the best aspects of my system (beautiful mid range) got better. SACD - This made my purchase worth it. It had everything that the cd player had but it was even smoother, with at least the same detail. Most importantly though it throws the sound at you more. What I mean is that like live sound where the sound comes at you instead of you looking for the sound the SACD does this. Now of course this was not live sound. My speakers just do not have the dynamics to even try(who does?). Overall the SACD was awesome. DVD-A - Also hugely impressive. I bought the DVD-A of Fleetwood Mac's dreams. What an amazing upgrade!!!!! Flabbergasting. I dont want to go until too much detail on SACD and DVD-a because I dont want to give opinions that one is better than the other when I've hear limited discs on either. Needless to say every one I bought is better in either most or all aspects of my greatest sounding CD's. So here were my $.02. Maybe I'll be the typical audiophile bonehead and get the player modified so I know it does all it possible can do. Either way I'm extremely happy. Sincerely, David |
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