are good PCDP's still being made?

[big_lou]

if so, do they sound as good as vintage PCDP's? any new units with digital amps?

Thanks.

[darkangel9685]

sony d-ej2000

great PCDP, has digital amp, best one i've heard in a while!
Amazon Link

has a line-out as well, for your amp! It scales up quite well I must add

[budx3385]

short answer - nope, not in my opinion

others might disagree

nothing portable that I have found beats a classic pcdp

of course, they're really transportable, rather than portable

[noseallinit]

i do not think the d-ej2000 has been available in a couple of years. it's listed as unavailable on the amazon link above.

even the current sony d-ne20 and d--ne920 has not been available in months.

sony does not have a current top of their line pcdp listed on their site at the moment. i noticed this time last year that they did not even have a single minidisc listed on their site for months when they finally released the mz-rh1 in september. i'm counting on sony to release new pcdp's by then. let's hope for i would like a sony pcdp with optical line out meself.

[terrymx]

No.

but you can still buy the recent top of the line sony d-ne20.

[Aevum]

its like tube televisions, alot of people like the image quality and the colour range of a CRT, but when RCA sold its CRT manufacturing biz, all the CRT tv´s are now manufactured by generic chinese manufacturers, but then again theres the manufacturing process cycle, when a product is introduced its expencive and hard to manufacture, the process has to be fine tuned, the quality varies, when the process ages and theres a large demand for a product, the manufacturing process stabalizes, it becomes cheaper, and theres less variation in quality,

then when its discontinued, it becomes a nich product for nustalgics, it becomes expencive again but the quality does not descrese becuase the process has allready been refined to the maximum, but then again, if a cheap chinese manufacturer uses a dead rat dac for its CD players, then its a economics problem, not a design problem,

[noseallinit]

Originally Posted by terrymx

but you can still buy the recent top of the line sony d-ne20.

where?

[DJShadow]

My experience is limited to the Sony D-225CR and D-NE920. The former 'vintage' (at what point does a pcdp stop being vintage?) pcdp sounds better than Sony's current flagship model (D-NE920 is the same thing as the D-NE20 but with a screen) - a thicker, warmer and rounder sound. There is no way you would ever want to use the 225 in any portable situation though. The D-NE920 has ridiculous battery life, it has more juice running redbooks than the 5.5g 80GB ipod playing 64KBps mp3 files.

[faichiu]

The answer is no.