Marantz "Professional" PMD325 CD Player

[Peter]

I have recently seen the "Professional" Marantz PMD325 CD player advertised,
and I noticed that it incorporates balanced XLR outputs, which not even the
very expensive "high-end" consumer Marantz CD players do.

Hence I am wondering how this "Professional" Marantz PMD325 CD player sounds
compared to the very expensive Marantz "Consumer" models?

I am also wondering if this PMD325 Marantz CD player features automatic
"de-emphasis" for listening to "early" CDs which incorporated "pre-emphasis"
for noise reduction?

I do not have any Marantz professional dealers nearby so I cannot listen to
this CD player, nor have I ever seen one, but I wonder if anyone reading
this might have heard, or perhaps even own, one of these PMD325 CD players?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

[Mike Rivers]

In article et> writes:

> I have recently seen the "Professional" Marantz PMD325 CD player advertised,
> and I noticed that it incorporates balanced XLR outputs, which not even the
> very expensive "high-end" consumer Marantz CD players do.

This is one of the least expensive ways to add the marketing label of
"professional" to a piece of audio equipment.

> Hence I am wondering how this "Professional" Marantz PMD325 CD player sounds
> compared to the very expensive Marantz "Consumer" models?

Probably about the same.

> I am also wondering if this PMD325 Marantz CD player features automatic
> "de-emphasis" for listening to "early" CDs which incorporated "pre-emphasis"
> for noise reduction?

Did they ever really do that? If so, I'm sure it's still part of the
standard design and I see no reason why it should be left out. But I
don't know. (So why am I bothering to answer??? I don't know that
either.)



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[EggHd]

I have the 320 and realy like it. If the 325 is just the balanced version and
it's a good deal it works well for my needs. I don't have any CDs that require
de emph so I I don't know if it works on that. Call tech support at Marantz
and ask.




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