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In Reply to: RE: Vintage Magnavox CDB492 CD Player - Impressive! posted by mjcmt on June 30, 2009 at 17:32:23
I know what you are experiencing.
My Oppo BDP-83 shares the rack with a Rotel 855...
I think I'm set for awhile.
Edits: 07/01/09
Very nice. I will use my Oppo for movies and the Magnavox for music.
Mike
FWIW Oppo told me no up sampling for red book… YES!
Also I’m having fun with HDtracks for DVD-A.
I like the red book performance of the Oppo.
Edits: 07/01/09
I thought thr Oppo was OK but I loose interest in the music quickly listening to it. There is something about it that doesn't allow music to hold my interest. When I aquired the Magnavox CDB492 the sound is in another league. The (Oppo sounds muffled and bland in comparison and the soundstand is flat and 2D sounding. The Mag is big and bold and the instruments sound like a real performance in front of me. While the Oppo seams to do a good job the Magnavox shames the Oppo.
Mike
To clarify I’m referring to Oppo’s new Blu-Ray Player.
Sound wise it’s much better than the other Oppo products I own and I somewhat agree with your assessment of their older products.
I knew you were talking about their new player. I wasn't aware that it improve on the redbook sound. How so?
Mike
As well as multichannel outputs it has dedicated stereo outs with their own high quality dacs and higher grade parts in the audio path.
The dacs in the stereo section will select a SACD’s 2 channel track if available, if not it will mix down the multichannel tracks.
Check out the link…
Lots of technology and a good movie experience to be sure. The $10,000 question is does it sound better on redbook cd playback than this humble Magnavox cdp with 16 bit DACs?
This is not to deminish the Oppo's strengths but mine with a Benchmark DAC did sound more involving, but as a stand alone unit it sounds sterile, flat, and uninvolving to me. Hopefully the Oppo 83 changed that, but I'm really enjoying the vintage Maganavox. It reminds me of the Cary CD308 I had 2 years ago, as far as listening pleasure and the human element.
Many high end manufactures have re-discovered that the Philips 1543 DAC from the '80's used in the Mag CDB492 still plays music good. I know this to be true because I had the modern Consonance Linear NOS cdp w/ the same DAC and I recently discovered this vintage player and I must say it makes beautiful music.
Mike
The Mag is big and bold and the instruments sound like a real performance in front of me. Before from above,the sentence before is very descriptive,very big bold detailed and clean.
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