Tuberoller
Divorced an Orpheus to keep his wife.
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I was looking for a DVD player to use in my shop office and went to Best Buy to pick one out.I came across the Sony DVP-NS500V DVD/SACD/CDP.I figured that for the $200.00 on-sale price I couldn't go wrong and I'd get SACD playback as well.I am not often impressed by audio equipment and I hear lots of it.I was extremly impressed with the Sony player.I have a Marantz SA-14 SACD player(actually my wife does) and I have been using a Cambridge audio CD500SE CDP in my main system.I really love the Cambridge and I am simply blown away by the SACD performance of the Marantz.I will honestly tell you that I think the Sony is nearly as good as the Marantz in SACD playback and actually does some things better than the Cambridge in CD playback.I usually attribute low volume level detail to amp performance,SACD has changed my mind about that.I find even the low level bass and midrange is much better with SACD playback.this is why I think SACD lends itself nicely to headphone system use.The low level detail of the Sony DVD player is simply stunning,in either SACD or Cd playback.this is where this player creams the cambridge and many other higher cost players that the Cambridge has slain.I was amazed at the sonic bass attack of the Sony and the sweet multilayered vocals.My system at work consists of an Old Fisher 400 reciever and Dynaco A-25 loudspeakers.I was worried that this system might be masking some deficiencies of the Sony so I took it home to my main system where it continued to impress me.this is one of the few CDps that traverses the tube/solid state sonic divide.It sounds as good in an all tube system as it does in a good solid-state system.It's back at work now and I have found myself listening to this sytem more than ever and actually playing more digital than analog for the first time in a while.I have to buy a Cd rack to hold all the Cds and SACDs I have taken to the shop.That's what it's all about right?I listen to and enjoy my music more because of this player."A" Plus.