Kalman Rubinson wrote:
Sorry to be snide but neither of those players can play a doughnut (or
any other circular object) as well as the EMM or Sony SCD-1.

Kal

On 14 Jun 2005 00:07:01 GMT, Codifus wrote:


RobertLang wrote:

Posted 6-12-05 Rec.high-end.audio

I have two SACD players connected to my system. One is the Sony SCD-1; the
other is the EMM Labs DAC6 e and CDSD Transport combo. Both of these are
noted for their stellar Red Book as well as SACD playback. The EMM Labs
adds multi-channel playback capability.

Informal listening with these players over the years (in the case of the
SCD-1) I have found that my experience has been very similar to Kal's.
That's is, XRCDs are almost always superior to other Red Book. In turn,
SACDs are almost always superior to XRCDs.

Robert C. Lang


But then, as Bordin suggested in a previous post, the reason the SACD
may sound the best in your system is because you're playing CDs in an
SACD player, of which both of your players are.

My experiecne has been similar to what Bordin says. I have never
listened to an SACD or DVD-A yet, but I did buy the Pioneer DVD 563
multi-format player. I compared it to my Panasonic S-35 player. The
Panasonic always sounded considerably better playing CDs than the
Pioneer did playing CDs. I could not enjoy the Pioneer playing regualr
CDs at all.

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I just read the article in stereophile archive reviwing the SCD-1. They
observed that the CD sounds almost but not quite as good as SACD, and
also that the CD sometimes sounded better on their other system, a dCS
972/Elgar, than when playing a CD on Sony's SCD-1.

I cannot help but be suspicious of a Sony multi-format player since we
all know that Sony wants CD to die, SACD to flourish, and DVD-A to go away


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