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In Reply to: Vinnie... posted by blake on March 05, 2004 at 04:41:22:
Blake,
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Thanks Vinnie. FWIW the Toshiba SD 430V (also not on the Toshiba Website) and apparently an interim replacement for the 3950 (available at Future Shop in Canada for $119 Cnd.) also has that DAC and the same layout mentioned by John Swenson below (I just popped the top on one I picked up a few days ago). There are slight cosmetic differences, but the only significant difference appears to be that the 430V has both coax and optical outs.It is very tight to connect both component video and the analog outs as they are right on top of each other on the rear panel.
I ran a burn-in disc on my 430 for about 6 hours before doing any critical listening, but I have to say I am quite impressed. The player is very refined and composed (I can't believe how good the highs are-very, very clean and non-digital sounding). With respect to the mini-review in this thread about the bass, I would say that my initial impressions were that the player was somewhat bass shy, but upon further listening what came through to me was that this player is eliminating a lot of bass bloat that my previous player had that was simply muddying things up. Kind of like switching from a crappy RCA to Eichmann bullet plugs. Actually, the Toshiba bass, when it really is there is very deep and defined.
A BB PCM 1742KEG inside.
http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/pcm1742.html
http://focus.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/pcm1742.pdf
Stats on this chip:
24 bit - SNR(Typ)(dB) 106 - Multilevel Delta-Sigma
Sampling Rate(Max)(kHz) 192 or 96khz (8x or 4x option)Here is the link to the detailed PCM1751 Info:
http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/pcm1751.html
And you'll note that... there is none lol its a PREVIEW status DAC from BB.http://focus.ti.com/docs/search/paramsearch.jhtml?tfsection=param_table&templateId=5275&showAssociated=false&familyId=582
BB's newest DACs (on their listing page) are pushing well over 120DB Signal to Noise Ratio (a few 130s)This sounds "better" than my old Pioneer but I'm wondering if I should still try to pickup one of the other Toshiba's instead...
must be the chip, in combination with a simple board layout-
and now discontinued,that sucks.
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