Arny Krueger wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" wrote
in message
I've been mucking about with an absolute honey of a CD
player for a few days. A Harman Kardon HD970. A real
giant-killer for RRP AUS$599.00. Highly recommended. Very
detailed, very quiet (quieter than my test equipment, in
fact) and, IMO, extremely well priced. It will accept the
output of a transport, or it can be used as a transport
on it's own (though why you'd bother, I don't know). The
DAC in this thing will comprehensively clobber any
surround sound reciever I know of. In fact, it is clearly
superior to pretty much anything I've used in my system
recently.
If you need a high end player, you would do worse than
listening to this puppy. Mind blowing value for money,
IMO.
For those who care about technical stuff:
Frequency response: 20Hz - 20kHz +0/-0.5dB
Not all that wonderful.
THD: 0.0009% @1kHz
Irrelevantly low.
Dynamic range: 116dB
S/N: 116dB
Channel Sparation: 115dB
All completely garbage specs for a medium with a built-in 98 dB dynamic
range limit.
Oversampling: 24 bits/384kHz Asynchonous Sample
Rate Covertor
Converters like that must be down around a buck. Besides, what good is 384
KHz sampling capability for a 44,100 Hz sampled medium?
This puppy has full descrete transistor output stages!
As if good op amps don't cost less than $0.50.
**Nope. I pay more than that for the AD825 (single OP amp only). It is
the best I've used.
There appears, at this stage, to be very little required
in the way of enhancements. HK have REALLY done their
homework with this machine.
Obviously someone needs to cut back on the coffee ration for their
engineering department. I seriously doubt that they will make back their
development costs on this one.
It would be fun to double blind compare this to a $25 portable CD player.
**Fun? no. Annoying, Yes.
Trevor Wilson
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