music_man
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philips dvp-642 dvd player.
i got this per the recomendation of mrarroyo. it is $49.99 at circuit city. it is the best(current usa) philips dvd player for playing cd's by far in my opinion. much better than the new toshibas which are not as good as the old ones. put it this way. this is $50, my pioneer dv-45a is $400. it should be the other way around! but it is not, and therefore i love this! thank you for the heads up mrarroyo.
this unit spins up fast. it is quiet when it is running. it has a heavy drawer reminiscent of the high end philips transport found in $1,000 players.
it has almost no jitter. the remote is simple and well built. it actually displays all cd functions on the front led(like repeat)! no other $50 player i am aware of does this. it even had very high quality isolation feet(the pioneer looks like it has big feet but they are hard plastic). as long as you are using a dac this should rival any dvd transport. i would not use the built in dac. it locks to any of my dacs better than any dvd player i have. of course $1,000 cd players will still beat it, but what do you want for $50? the only thing i miss on the pioneer is that it does not load a disc to stop, it loads only to play. only pioneer loads to stop. even the high end denon and sonys if i remember load to play(correct me if i am wrong). the only other small drawback is it skips on scratched or dirty cd's where some other players will play through. just take care of your cd's and this will work great.
this is a serious bargain so i wanted to get the word out.
music_man
i got this per the recomendation of mrarroyo. it is $49.99 at circuit city. it is the best(current usa) philips dvd player for playing cd's by far in my opinion. much better than the new toshibas which are not as good as the old ones. put it this way. this is $50, my pioneer dv-45a is $400. it should be the other way around! but it is not, and therefore i love this! thank you for the heads up mrarroyo.
this unit spins up fast. it is quiet when it is running. it has a heavy drawer reminiscent of the high end philips transport found in $1,000 players.
it has almost no jitter. the remote is simple and well built. it actually displays all cd functions on the front led(like repeat)! no other $50 player i am aware of does this. it even had very high quality isolation feet(the pioneer looks like it has big feet but they are hard plastic). as long as you are using a dac this should rival any dvd transport. i would not use the built in dac. it locks to any of my dacs better than any dvd player i have. of course $1,000 cd players will still beat it, but what do you want for $50? the only thing i miss on the pioneer is that it does not load a disc to stop, it loads only to play. only pioneer loads to stop. even the high end denon and sonys if i remember load to play(correct me if i am wrong). the only other small drawback is it skips on scratched or dirty cd's where some other players will play through. just take care of your cd's and this will work great.
this is a serious bargain so i wanted to get the word out.
music_man