Gopher
Member of the Trade: LampizatOr Audio
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Welp. I had a little bad luck the other day with my philips. Apparantly the RCA jacks didn't like being under the weight of my Acoustic Zen interconnects and I started loosing the right channel intermittently... Luckily, the guy who sold it to me is a client of my fathers and he took it back for a full refund over a year after its purchase.
This leaves me with a new problem... apparantly the 963 has been discontinued by philips. They are long gone at J&R and the only people still selling them (ie. acoustic sounds) seem to want retail (assuming theres still stock). On the bright side this is all happening at x-mas time and I figure that unless I can find another one ~$350 I need a new player.
This will probably be used for 2 channel audio only. and will be mated with all acoustic zen wiring. Magnepan 1.6QR speakers and a Plinius 8200 MK II amp. If I sell off my K-1000s and Equinox I can raise ~1000 for it. And my priorities are as follows.
1. Good build quality (I don't want any more problems).
2. I've got a bunch of SACDs so that would be nice.
3. IEC power (I want to stick my Acoutic Zen Tsunami in)
4. DVD-Video would be convient, but I can always move a dvd player to my rack.
I'm thinking once again about checking out a Jolida JD-100A and picking up another NS500V or something for SACD and DVD video... kind of a step back, but I'm open to suggestions.
Fred
This leaves me with a new problem... apparantly the 963 has been discontinued by philips. They are long gone at J&R and the only people still selling them (ie. acoustic sounds) seem to want retail (assuming theres still stock). On the bright side this is all happening at x-mas time and I figure that unless I can find another one ~$350 I need a new player.
This will probably be used for 2 channel audio only. and will be mated with all acoustic zen wiring. Magnepan 1.6QR speakers and a Plinius 8200 MK II amp. If I sell off my K-1000s and Equinox I can raise ~1000 for it. And my priorities are as follows.
1. Good build quality (I don't want any more problems).
2. I've got a bunch of SACDs so that would be nice.
3. IEC power (I want to stick my Acoutic Zen Tsunami in)
4. DVD-Video would be convient, but I can always move a dvd player to my rack.
I'm thinking once again about checking out a Jolida JD-100A and picking up another NS500V or something for SACD and DVD video... kind of a step back, but I'm open to suggestions.
Fred