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On another qwebsite, it was claimed that all blu-ray players sound the same. The author had a-b'd an oppo against a cheap Sony.
Comments, please, from those who have done similar.
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$90 Gefen TV DAC with Dolby (Gefen GTV-DD-2-AA)$149 Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 DAC / ADC with unbalanced output connection
I feel the difference in the sounds of these two in my low fi system.
Gefen sounds a little warmer, fuller, and more pleasant.
Focus rite shows a little less noise, distortion, and jitter in sinusoidal tone measurement, but does produce less pleasant music - It is connected unbalanced to my system: the "ring" is not connected to anything in the balanced TRS output. The Focusrite's output is also less burned in, but I am not sure whether it is a factor. -.
So my guess is that even low cost blue ray players in a low-fi system do not sound the same.
P.S.
In the case of low-end analogue FM radio, I felt difference between $29 Sony Cassette/FM/AM walkman and ~ $40 Radioshack portable FM/AM radio.I used each product a few days in various volume levels, switched the product, switched the product, . . . . . About 2 months later - after the return period -, I confirmed the difference in the feeling. RadioShack produced less static, but sounded less musically involving. Sony drew me into music.
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I have a Panasonic BDT500 and it sounds pretty good via it's analog outs....surprisingly good. It was touted as having a "audiophile" analog stage. I don't know about that....but it sounds better than a few CD playersI've had in the past. It's hooked up to my NAD M51 DAC which is how I listen to it, but when I was between DACs it wasn't too bad to listen to.
Apologies to all, I've lost the original URL
CD players do not all sound the same.
Blu-ray players do not all sound the same.
However, if you take two Blu-ray players and feed their HDMI outputs to an AV receiver, then the overall sound is more likely to take on the characteristics of the AV receiver. In this case, you might not hear the difference between Blu-ray player 1 and Blu-ray player 2.
I think that's probably what they did
You are likely to hear greater differences by listening through the analog outputs of the Blu-ray players. I have a cheap Sony that sounds horrible and another cheap Sony that actually sounds pretty good!
Hi and interesting
Which model is ?
Thanks a lot.P.S. i am sure that out there a cheap BR player with streaming abilities and good sound must exist.
Or at least with a decent spdif out ... at least.
My impression is that the giant killers hunting season is not popular anymore like it was in the past.
I remember dvd toshiba players modified, cheap dacs winning awards ...
This would give high quality sound to the masses.
I hope for a jitter free world.
Kind regards,
bg
Edits: 01/08/15
Both Sony's are a few years old and they are packed away in the basement. Sorry, I do not recall the model numbers but each player was less than $250.
Hi and thanks anyway
it is interesting to know that something good and cheap do exist
Even if they are more exceptions than a rule
Kind regards,
bg
Hi could you name the cheap Sony model ?
Please ...
Thanks a lot.
Kind regards,
bg
from a digital perspective, yes. From an analog perspective, no.
Do not believe that, they do not all sound the same. The notion that all digital sources sound the same has been circulating since the first mass market CD players appeared in the mid-1980s. I find it amusing when one person declares that because they don't hear a difference through their ears and equipment, that there is no difference that anyone else can hear either. While certainly not all player analog outputs sound the same, even the streaming digital audio output signals (typically, S/PDIF) don't all sound the same. This is true even though such digital streams may be bit identical. The reason for that is differences in the jitter profile of their respective digital streams.Jitter profiles will vary due to differences in each player's clock generator circuit, power supply noise, digital interface common-mode noise coupling and digital interface impedance mismatch. The external DAC at the other end of the digital interface will typically use the timing built into the digital signal stream as the basis for it's own timing reference. Jitter on the digital stream from the player results in jitter on the external DAC's conversion timing instants that could be audible.
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Ken Newton
Edits: 01/07/15
In my experience, they all sound the same when they are outputting a digital signal. Analog output is another story...
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Hi and could you add the link to the review ?
If there is a cheap Sony around that sounds like the Oppo i will buy it immediately
a friend of mine has a 103 and it sounds very good indeed with cds also.
He has also a teac p-700 transport + cal audio dac ... the differences in sound are marginal.
Thanks a lot.
Kind regards,
bg
Edits: 01/07/15 01/07/15
DVD-A, Redbook CD, Blu-Ray Audio?
yes
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