Pierre Carrier wrote:
Thanks Steven ...
- Glad yours doesn't seem to make noise.
- As for heat ("... All players 'warm up' discs as they play, in my
experience.") I don't have a thermomether handy but I could nearly warm a
dinner on the S2500 player, if not boil water. No CD player of mine or even
an older Sony DVD/CD player ever generated such heat.

Try spinning one in your computer's CD-RW drive.

- Further discussion with my brother revealed yet another problem: his S2300
disk tray is not opening/closing properly, for the second time since he
bought it. A friend of his has the same player and while he did not
experiece the tray problem he concurs with the excessive heat coming from
the unit.

I don't experience a problem; I do note that the player's response to
commands is slow. From what I read on other forums, this a consequence
of the chipsets used.

Well, at this point, I've decided to return the Yamaha DVD S2500 and
purchase a Denon 2910 or 3910.

I'm happy with the S2500 -- which I use essentially as a transport. It;'s
nice to have ilink passing all formats to my receiver's DACs.


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-S
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secret. A warm wonderful secret that nobody else knows about." - 'Blame it
on Rio'